This group resided at Gyokusen-ji after the departure of the Russians until the arrival of Townsend Harris, the first American Consul General to Japan in 1856.
Mario was also the recipient of the City College of New York's Townsend Harris Medal (1993), and the Cardinal Hayes High School John Cardinal Spellman Award (1993).
He was also awarded the Townsend Harris and Margaret Byrd Dawson Medals for significant achievement, the Northern Telecom-International Council for Canadian Studies Gold Medal, and the Leon Epstein Prize in Comparative Politics by the American Political Science Association.
Under the 1859 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the first Tokyo legation of the United States of America was established at Zenpuku-ji under Consul-General Townsend Harris.
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During the negotiations with the Bakufu, Count Eulenburg had been assisted by Henry Heusken, a Dutch-American interpreter who usually worked for the US consul Townsend Harris.
After growing up in Morningside Heights and attending New York City public schools and Townsend Harris High School, he graduated from CCNY in 1939 and received a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B)in 1942 from New York University Law School.
In 1858 he made the ceremonial visit to Edo as representative of the Dutch king to pay tribute to the Shogun and negotiate a new treaty on the basis of the American Consul Townsend Harris' treaty of that year.