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 […]
Foreign Dignitaries
Exchange Students President Grant President Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) left a strong impression on both the Iwakura Mission and the Meiji Emperor of Japan. Grant would have a number of interactions between the Iwakura Mission in 1872 and the core leadership of the Meiji government in 1879 during his 74-day visit to Japan, where he dialogued with the Emperor and the upper echelons of the government elite. Grant held a keen interest in developing America’s diplomatic ties with greater Asia and had specific soft-diplomacy aims of his own when the Iwakura Mission arrived at the White House. As such, though the Iwakura Mission was […]
Exchange Students
Exchange Students Sutematsu Ōyama Sutematsu Ōyama (1860 – 1919) was one of five girls sent with the Iwakura Mission to receive an American education. She initially lived in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to Poughkeepsie, New York to attend Vassar College. In addition to graduating magna cum laude, she became the first Japanese woman to obtain a college degree. She also obtained a nursing degree before returning to Japan in 1882. Despite her inability to read or write Japanese, she rose through the ranks of society and obtained the title of princess. She also helped found several schools for women, one of which would later become Tsuda University. Source Shigeko […]
Iwakura Mission Members
Iwakura Tomomi Ambassador Plenipotentiary Tomomi Iwakura (October 26, 1825 – July 20, 1883) was adopted as the son and heir of the wealthy and powerful Iwakura family. With prowess, he was able to position himself as a member of a small group of conspirators who brought about the Meiji Restoration (1868), thereby ending the reign of the previous shogunate. The new leadership, which leveraged the reputation of the Meiji emperor as a force for modernization, aimed to study Western systems of education, government, economics, and legislation, among other modes of thought. To assist with this goal, Iwakura was selected to lead a delegation of over 50 senior government officials on […]
Receptions & Media Coverage
Receptions and Media Coverage “At about 12 o’clock a shout of ‘Here they come!’ from the crowd…”“The reception given them…was one of the most brilliant affairs of the kind seen here for years.” “…I am sure the whole heart of the American nation will leap up to welcome the noble ambassadors of our sister nation.” In nearly every American town and city, the Iwakura Mission was greeted by the formal entourages of politicians and prominent citizens, who treated them to lavish banquets and demonstrations. Crowds often gathered to catch a glimpse of the esteemed representatives from Japan. The mission’s progress was monitored by American newspapers of all size and scale, […]
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