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 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.