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Jun Kimura

Historical documents recorded that the Acapulco-bound galleon San Francisco
had sunk in 1609 near modern Onjuku town, Chiba Prefecture of Japan. Jun
Kimura reported the Searching for the San Francisco (1609), a Manila Galleon
Sunk off the Japanese Coast with the information of the ongoing maritime
archaeological project on this wreck searching since 2016, leaving us the hope and
potentiality for further discovery in coming future.
Part III: Bound for Acapulco: The Archaeology of the Paci!c and America as
the Galleon Navigation Record
As the east destination of galleon navigation, the New Spain colonization in con-
temporary Latin America had received a great amount of cultural feedbacks from
East Asia. Archaeologists investigated and excavated not only the underwater
shipwrecks of galleon along the west coast of America, but also a series of land
sites at Acapulco, San Blas, Rio Chiquito, and Panama seaports and many inland
sites of central American regions, revealing numeral maritime trade heritages from
East Asia, mainly including Chinese porcelains.

Joseph Quinata