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The Grew Bancroft Foundation provides 4-year undergraduate scholarships to Japanese students attending U.S. liberal arts colleges. The Foundation is named for Joseph C. Grew, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1932-42), and Edgar A. Bancroft, U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1924-25). Over the past 90 years, more than 200 scholars have graduated from prestigious colleges, and 36 students […]

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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

“Quakes and Japan” Panel Discussion

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 […]

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 […]