- DENEB KAITOS (Beta Ceti). Though the Beta star of the constellation Cetus, the “Whale” or “Sea Monster,” Deneb Kaitos is – at mid-second-magnitude – (2.04) – notably the brightest of a fairly hard-to-find figure.
- Manjirō Nakahama: From Castaway to Samurai (hakaimagazine.com)
On October 4, 1987, the town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (population 16,000), had a pair of unlikely visitors: Akihito, crown prince of Japan (today, the emperor), and his wife, Princess Michiko. Why would Japanese royalty visit this small American whaling and fishing port? The events that forged the unlikely connection between Japan and Fairhaven began 146 years earlier.