Laxman saw this as an opportunity to work towards the opening of Japan, and suggested this to Catherine the Great, who agreed.
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Like several other Japanese before them, they had been found in the Aleutians, off the coast of Alaska, by Russian sailors and had asked to be brought back to Japan.
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At roughly the same time, in 1789, Finnish professor Erik Laxman, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, came across several Japanese castaways in Irkutsk.
It came under the daimyo of Matsumae clan in the 18th century and got its current European name from a visit of the French navigator La Perouse, who named it Moneron after Paul Mérault Monneron, the chief engineer of his expedition.
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