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 Contributors

  • Xiaoke Yang
  • Azat Bilalutdinov

 

The Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York wishes to express special gratitude to the editors and contributors behind Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century (forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield) for inspiring this project and aiding in its completion.

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