Anjin san or William Adams was born in 1564 in Gillingham, Kent, England, but died in 1620 in Hirado, Japan.
They say, he is the first Englishman to visit Japan.
Maybe that should be rephrased to a visitor of Japan who was at first forced to stay, but later when given the choice of return, he opted to stay and pop his clogs in Japan. They even named a street after him in Tokyo: Anjin-Dori.

Adams started as an apprentice shipbuilder and later became a ship master.
He was a ship master for the British navy against the Spanish Armada and he was a pilot for the Barbary Company. This was a private company, representing the interest of two noblemen and about 40 London merchants. It had a charter signed by Queen Elizabeth I for exclusive trade with the Kingdom of the Saadis, now Morocco, for a period of 12 years. Incidently, Queen Elizabeth I was known to be religiously tolerant unlike her sister Bloody Mary.
Afterwards Adams started working for a Dutch company in 1598 and sailed with five Dutch ships towards Indonesia via the Strait of Magellan. However, their journey was fraught with danger and indeed a storm landed their ship in Kyushu, Japan, in year 1600. William Adams and some of his crew survived that journey, the rest perished.
They were all summoned before the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in Osaka. After some questioning about various topics, the shogun got interested in Adams. As time unfolded, he gained favours with the Shogun, he was given several estates and the title of high ranking samurai in the direct service of the Shogun, or a Hatamoto.

Adams became very influential in Japan’s trade with the outside world and also very influential in promoting religious intolerance, anti-Catholics that is. Unfortunately, that contributed later to Japan’s isolation from the rest of the world and the persecution of religious minorities.

These companies that Adam worked for, they are the precursors to the notorious East India Company.

He had a wife, a son and a daughter in England. He also had a Japanese wife, a son and daughter. It is not clear if he fathered other children from concubines.

At the early stages of his stay in Japan, he requested at several occasions the permission to return to England, but the Shogun refused. However, and strangely enough, when his permission to return was granted, he decided to stay and indeed, he died in Hirado, Japan.

The skeleton remains found in Hirado and attributed to William Adams were analysed by the Toho University School of Medicine in Tokyo.
Their study was Carbon dated and it corresponds to the years Adams lived in Japan. It was also based on mitochondrial DNA, the inherited DNA from the mother and it corresponds to Haplogroup H. From a genetic genealogy point of view, this Haplogroup H is very common in Europe, North Africa and Syria.

Here, you have an Englishman whose lineage could go back to Celts, North Africans or Syrians. Morever, it is an Englishman who choose to migrate, forced to stay when he wanted to leave and then choose to stay away from England when he could return.

A true Englishman cannot be anti-migrant.
Hold on! let me rephrase that.
You are a migrant. I can tell by your DNA.

And more importantly, you do not know where you will pop your clogs.

“And no soul knows in what land it will die!”
Quran