Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York

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 Exhibit In  2022, Japan celebrated baseball’s sesquicentennial – the 150th birthday of a national pastime and obsession in the Land of the Rising Sun. What started as a school sport in Tokyo has forged a path for many Japanese players to make it to the Major Leagues, with names such as Ichiro, Matsui, Darvish, Tanaka, […]

Video

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

参考文献

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. Sources Bix, […]

略歴

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, he was urged by Ambassador and Consul General in New York, Setsuzo Sawada, to “listen and learn” upon his arrival in the country. Borton took the advice to heart and became one of the most influential American academics helping to shape policy towards Japan after the end of WW2. Hugh Borton (1903-1995) Gordon Bowles (1904-1991) […]

Timeline – Quakers

Timeline 1885 Inazo Nitobe converts to Quakerism in Baltimore, Maryland. 1885 1887 The first dedicated Quaker school for girls in Japan is established in Tokyo, named “The Friends Girls School”. 1887 1900 Umeko Tsuda founds Tsuda College (originally known as the Women’s English School). 1900 1902 Michi Kawai attends her first YWCA camp in Silver Bay, New York, sparking a lifelong association with the organization. 1902 1911 Inazo Nitobe is named an inaugural exchange professor for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and delivers a series of lectures at Columbia University in New York City and other American colleges. 1911 1918 Tokyo Woman’s Christian University is established by Inazo Nitobe, […]

更なるストーリー

Additional Stories Esther Rhoads and Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) Beyond the advancement of women’s education, Quaker educators were heavily involved in humanitarian work in Japan. Esther Biddle Rhoads, a Columbia University graduate and Principal of the Friends Girls School in Tokyo, was one such individual. As a commissioner of Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia, or LARA, Rhoads was responsible for coordinating emergency food, clothing, and supplies for tens of millions of Japanese citizens facing dire conditions after the end of WWII. Esther Rhoads Esther Rhoads’ first arrival in Japan, 1917 Esther Rhoads came from a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia who were friends of Inazo Nitobe […]

戦後の政策　

Postwar Policy After the end of World War II, Japanese society underwent a number of changes in its government, economy, industry, and, of course, education. Many of these changes were overseen by the American occupation forces and the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, or SCAP. However, the Occupation’s relationship with Japan was not simply one of conqueror and conquered. In truth, there was a great deal of cooperation between SCAP and Japanese citizens who often found unique opportunities to implement their own ideas within the framework of the Occupation. Two of these individuals, Michi Kawai and Ai Hoshino, were women educators with ties to the Quakers and to New […]