Japanese ambassadors meet American officers in the coast of the city of Aspinwall (Now Colón) after crossing through the Panama Railroad on their way to Washington, this 1860 Embassy, was the first Japanese diplomatic delegation to visit a Western nation since 1620. From Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. The Japanese Embassy, as well as items they brought with them were heavily portrayed by newspapers like this one, though many articles praised the Japanese Empire, society and culture, the depictions still carried a big degree of racial insensitivity and otherism. By the time, the Panama was still part of Colombia and the American-managed railroad had recently been opened. The Embassy was scorted continously by Americans although the Departmental Governor and small Panamanian delegation had also chance to meet with the Embassy and join them in the railroad trip, there is still very little further record of the experience.
