News Archives - Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in NY

録画：「明治モダン：女性教育の今と昔」パネルディスカッション

This event, presented by Asia Society Japan, featured a moderated panel discussion at The International House of Japan in Tokyo in person and online on August 28, 2023. Discussion focused on the significance of women’s education in Japan since the time the country was modernizing 150 years ago. Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York Founding Board Chair Dr. Nick Homma spoke about the first Japanese women sponsored by the Meiji government to study abroad in the United States. Former International Christian University President Dr. Junko Hibiya discussed gender issues that continue today. The discussion was moderated by Asia Society Japan Founding Member Mitsuru Claire Chino. The […]

録画：「クエーカーの日本における歴史的発展への貢献」パネルディスカッション

LINK TO RECORDING 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 as current Quakers from within the Japanese American community. The event was hosted by Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. and took place on March 23, 2023.

古本武司氏（ニューヨーク日本歴史評議会理事）と「フレッド・コレマツの日」決議

(Mr. Takeshi Furumoto, pictured front row, fourth from left in military uniform.) Takeshi Furumoto, one of the founding members of the Japan History Council of New York, was born in northern California’s Tule Lake War Relocation Center in 1944. He served in the Vietnam War and suffered from PTSD upon his return to the U.S., where he nevertheless established a successful career in the NY and NJ real estate business. After experiencing anti-Japanese discrimination in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he received a distinguished service medal from the State of New Jersey for his services in Vietnam, at which point he began to speak out about his experiences to […]

岡本徹氏（ニューヨーク日本歴史評議会理事）によりデジタル博物館の資料が地元の学校で利用される

Mr. Toru Okamoto, Board Member of the Japan History Council of New York, recently promoted the use of the Digital Museum of Japanese History in New York among young students from the Japanese Children’s Society. Over the course of three classes during the month of October, 2022, students at the Society’s Port Washington school reviewed the Digital Museum’s special exhibit “Japanese Eyes on America: 150 Years Since the Iwakura Mission to the United States”. The Japanese Children’s Society students engaged with the history of the Iwakura Mission and its two-year journey around the globe from 1871-1873. They examined a variety of questions about the Iwakura Mission such as: “What sort […]

ニューヨーク日本歴史評議会設立２周年記念声明

The Japan History Council of New York was created in December 2020 to establish a Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York and the region. The goal of the Museum is to collect, preserve, and disseminate this rich and varied history from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The Council continued to pursue this mission in 2022 with the following accomplishments: Looking ahead, the Digital Museum is currently developing its second exhibit, a study of the fascinating connections between the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Japan. A panel will discuss this history in Philadelphia in March 2023. The Council is grateful to its sponsors for their […]