For the units of length and weight that are widely used in daily life, the standards in Japan were the "prototype meter" and the "prototype kilogram" made of alloy (platinum 90%, iridium 10%) ...

Ertugrul arrived in Japan in 1890 with a messenger commissioned by the Ottoman emperor aboard. The ship encountered a typhoon on its return trip to Kobe from modern-day Yokosuka, Kanagawa ...