Japanese Mutual Aid Society (Current Japanese American Association New York)
Dr. Toyohiko Takami established the Japanese Mutual Aid Society in 1907 in order to provide social services and aid to the Japanese and Japanese American community.
Its name changed to the Japanese American Association New York Inc. (JAANY) in the 1950s. It continues to operate and support its communities to this day.
The Japan Society New York
Yasuo Matsui
Yasuo Matsui was born and raised in Japan and moved to the U.S. in 1898. He Attended M.I.T. and the University of California, Berkley, starting in 1902.
Matsui worked as a draftsman in the offices of several prominent New York architectural firms, and aacted as an associate or consulting architect on many buildings in New York City, including the Empire State Building and the Japanese Pavilion at the 1939 New York Word’s Fair.
On December 8, 1941, the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Matsui, along with many others, was arrested and held at an internment camp on Ellis Island for two months.
Shofuso Japanese House at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
Junzo Yoshimura, the Architect who introduced Japanese architectural culture to the U.S.
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Jokichi Takamine: Highly regarded scientist and founder of the Nippon Club
Jokichi Takamine was born in Takaoka, Toyama. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1879, and did postgraduate work at University of Glasgow and Anderson College in Scotland. He returned to Japan in 1883 and joined the chemistry division at the newly established Department of Agriculture and Commerce. In 1890, Takamine was invited to come to the U.S. to develop a practical application of Taka-diastase (a starch-digesting enzyme named after Takamine) for the distilling industry.
In 1905 Takamine established the Nippon Club, a social club for Japanese and Japanese Americans in New York.
Toyohiko Takami, the first Japanese Medical Doctor in the U.S. and the Founder of the Japanese Mutual Aid Association
Dr. Toyohiko Campbell Takami was a medical expert and the first Japanese to obtain a medical license in the U.S. Born in Kumamoto, Takami moved to New York at the age of 16 and learned English under the guidance and support of Ms. Nancy E. Campbell. He graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and then Cornell University School of Medicine in 1906.
He established the Japanese Mutual Aid Association (now Japanese American Association of New York) in 1907.
