Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond

Spirit and Sacrifice Beyond the Diamond: 150 Years of Japanese Baseball Courtesy of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. There had been no greater agency in bringing our different races together than our nation’s game, baseball. Baseball is our real melting pot. – Frederick Lieb, American sportswriter and baseball historian (1923) About The […]

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 […]

Video

Quakers and Japan. March 23rd, 2023 https://www.historyofjapaneseinny.org/wp-content/uploads/videos/GMT20230323-211746_Recording_1280x720.mp4#t=6.6

“Quakers 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 […]

Credits and References

Special Thanks Institutions Barnard College Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania Friends Girls Junior and Senior High School Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia Keisen Jogakuen Tsuda University United States – Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Archives Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University   Research […]

Biographies

Biographies Hugh Borton (1903-1995) was a Quaker, Columbia University professor and president of the East Asian Institute, and president of Haverford College. He worked on Japan in a variety of capacities over the course of a long career in government and academia. Before his first trip to Japan as a missionary in the 1930s however, […]