Recording: “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 modernizing 150 years ago. Digital Museum of the History of Japanese […]
Recording: “Quakes and Japan” Panel Discussion
LINK TO RECORDING 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 […]
Takeshi Furumoto, Board member of Japan History Council of New York, and Fred Korematsu Day resolution
(Mr. Takeshi Furumoto, pictured front row, fourth from left in military uniform.) Takeshi Furumoto, one of the founding members of the Japan History Council of New York, was born in northern California’s Tule Lake War Relocation Center in 1944. He served in the Vietnam War and suffered from PTSD upon his return to the U.S., […]