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Volunteer Content Management Add New Artifact Test Artifact Half Century of Japanese Artists in New York at Azuma Gallery: Planning Document and Exhibition Booklet Norio Araki Japanese Businessmen Arrive on the Oceanic Morimura Brothers Store on Broadway, 1893 The oldest article believed to be written by Asahi Shimbun’s New York correspondent The Japanese Ambassadors A Mainichi Newspaper Correspondent Returns to the United States after WWII Nippon TV broadcasts live via satellite from its New York studio to Tokyo
Dr. Eugenie Clark, A leading Marine Biologist and the Author of "The Lady and the Sharks"
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.
Isaku Kida
Isaku Kida was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1905. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin’s English normal school, he came to the U.S. and attended Oberlin College, however he left school and moved to New York in 1932.
Two years later, he joined the OSS’s military intelligence group, and served in India. The end of the war found him in Yunan province in China.
Immediately following the end of WW2 Mr. Kida wrote an editorial stressing the urgent need for a concerted effort to send relief to war-torn Japan’s needy millions. As a result, in 1946 The New York Committee for Relief to Japan was formed with Mr. Kida as one of its founding members. The group shifted its focus to the welfare of local Japanese and Japanese Americans, being reborn as the Japanese American Association, with Mr. Kida as its director.
In 1945 the first edition of the Hokubei Shimpo was published and Mr. Kida became the first stockholder of the newsppaer. He took over the running of the paper in 1952.
In 1963 the paper was renamed “The New York Nichibei” which it remained until its closing issue on July 1, 1993.
The Japanese American Association of New York (JAANY) Manifesto, 1954
Half Century of Japanese Artists in New York 1910-1950 at Azuma Gallery: Planning Document
Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia (LARA) Brosure, 1949
Japanese American Welfare Society (1946 – 1952)
”Of Milk and Eggs” a Pamphlet published by the New York Japanese American Committee for Japan Relief
