Eitaro Ishigaki
Eitaro Ishigaki was invited to the U.S. in 1909 by his father who had moved there previously. He lived in Seattle and Bakersfield, then San Francisco, where he met Gertrude Boyle. They moved to New York togehter in 1915. Ishigaki worked repairing furniture and umbrella handles while attending the Art Students League.
After the war he was suspected of communist activities and was deported to Japan with his wife Ayako Ishigaki in 1951. Ishigaki died in Tokyo in 1958.
Kyohei Inukai
Isamu Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles and moved with his family to Japan in 1906. He returned to the U.S. in 1918. He studied sculpture from 1919-1920, and became a member of the National Sculpture Society in 1925.
After graduated from Columbia University in 1927 with a degree in pharmacology, he received a Guggenheim scholarship to study in France.
During WWII, Noguchi entered the Japanese American Internment camp at Poston, Arizona under his own volition in 1942, and returned to New York six months after entering the camp.
In 1985, Noguchi opened The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (now known as The Noguchi Museum), in Long Island City, New York.
He passed away in New York in 1988.
“Meiji Modern: What Women’s Education Means Then and Now” Panel Discussion
“Meiji Modern: What Women’s Education Means Then and Now” Panel Discussion This event, presented by Asia Society Japan, featured a moderated panel discussion at The International House of Japan in Tokyo in person and online on August 28, 2023. Discussion focused on the significance of women’s education in Japan since the time the country was […]
Grew Bancroft Foundation
The Grew Bancroft Foundation provides 4-year undergraduate scholarships to Japanese students attending U.S. liberal arts colleges. The Foundation is named for Joseph C. Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1932-42), and Edgar A. Bancroft, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1924-25). Over the past 90 years, more than 200 scholars have graduated from prestigious colleges, and 36 students […]
“Quakes and Japan” Panel Discussion
This public event was co-sponsored by the Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York and the Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia. Featuring guest speakers Thomas Burkman, Teresa Maebori, Ed Nakawatase, and Kathleen Paulmier, the conversation covered prominent historical figures from within the Society of Friends and their contributions to historical development in Japan, as well […]
