Let’s take a run through the halls of history. In 1887, Japanese Emperor Meiji’s nephew, Prince Komatsu, traveled with his wife to visit the Ottoman Empire. In response to this gesture, Sultan Abdülhamid II sent Adm. Osman Paşa’s Ertuğrul frigate with a delegation of 650 people to Japan in July 1889. In June 1890, the

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