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Quakers and Japan. March 23rd, 2023 https://www.historyofjapaneseinny.org/wp-content/uploads/videos/GMT20230323-211746_Recording_1280x720.mp4#t=6.6
Credits and References
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 […]
Biographies
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, […]
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 […]
Additional Stories
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 […]
Postwar Policy
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 […]
Surviving The Storm
Surviving The Storm Tsuda College Emergency Committee In the early 1900s, one of the few institutions of higher education for women in Japan was Tsuda College (originally known as the Women’s English School) in Tokyo. The school was named after its founder, Umeko Tsuda, who was educated in the U.S. and possessed close connections to […]
Calls for Change
Calls for Change In 1872, the Japanese government issued the “Gakusei” order requiring all children in the country to receive a primary education. Secondary schools followed shortly thereafter and Japan’s university system gradually became more robust. However, these developments were not enjoyed equally by male and female students. In the beginning, female attendance at primary […]
Introduction – Quakers
Introduction The Religious Society of Friends, whose members are widely known as Quakers, is well known for its indelible impact on the history of the United States. From founders like William Penn, to presidents such as Herbert Hoover, women’s rights leaders Lucretia Mott and Alice Paul, and even cultural icons like James Dean, the legacy […]
Friends from Yonder Shores
Courtesy of Tsuda University ArchivesCourtesy of Tsuda University ArchivesCourtesy of Keisen JogakuenFrom the collection of Steve Sundberg, OldTokyo.com Previous slide Next slide Friends from Yonder Shores Quakers, New York, and Women’s Education in Japan Sweet, poignant memories surged through me, of a ‘cherry-tree of yonder shore’ growing in my mother’s village…To the many who have […]
