Friendly connections : Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the late nineteenth century / edited by Linda H. Chance, Paul B. Reagan, and Tetsuko Toda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chance, Linda H., editor.

Reagan, Paul B., editor.

Toda, Tetsuko, editor, writer of afterword.

Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J. (Emma Jones), 1945- writer of foreword.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quaker women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Quaker women.

Quakers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Quakers.

Society of Friends--Japan--History.

Society of Friends.

Society of Friends--United States--History.

Society of Friends--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Women--Japan--History.

Women.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Women's rights--Japan--History.

United States--Relations--Japan--History.

United States.

Japan--Relations--United States--History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xxii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2024]

Summary:

"Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan since the Late Nineteenth Century discloses the history of relations among members of the Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers, of Philadelphia and Japanese intellectuals, educators, and activists. In this book, Japanese and North American experts demonstrate that education, women's rights, interracial equality, politics, disaster relief, reform, and peace efforts have all benefited. Seventeen chapters detail this underappreciated history. Throughout the modern era, these ties, often between women, have transformed efforts for peace, equality, and women's rights in Japan and the United States. With a focus on 'women's work for women,' and revelations about supportive British Quakers, this book uncovers networks that sustained Japan-America ties for a century and a half"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner

Editorial conventions and abbreviations

Editor's preface and acknowledgements / Introduction / Paul B. Reagan / Part 1: Beginnings: "The simple fact of our being friends". Chapter 1: Early Quaker missionary activity and Japan / Thomas D. Hamm

Chapter 2: Transpacific Quaker denominationalism: Quakerism from Philadelphia to Tokyo / Tetsuko Toda

Chapter 3: The Japan Peace Society and the British and American Quakers who supported it / Mitsuhiro Sakaguchi

Part 2: Partnerships: "More than the courage to despair". Chapter 4: The faith life of Nitobe Inazō: A legacy of Philadelphia Quakerism / Thomas W. Burkman

Chapter 5: The Nitobes: A Quaker international marriage / Steven Elkinton and Sharlie Conroy Ushioda

Chapter 6: Anna C. Hartshorne and her mission in Japan / Mieko Kojima

Chapter 7: "Toward friendship with Japan": The American Friends Service Committee and educational diplomacy in the 1920s / Allan W. Austin

Part 3: Tides: "If you can stay, do stay". Chapter 8: Edith Forsythe Sharpless in wartime Japan, 1939-1943 / Tetsuko Toda

Chapter 9: Esther Biddle Rhoads and Friends School in Tokyo / Mitsuo Ōtsu, translated by Louisa Hatanaka and Kazumi Teune

Chapter 10: The Encounter with Non-Pastoral Quakerism / Tetsuko Toda

Part 4: Occupations: "For mutual helpfulness". Chapter 11: Elizabeth Gray Vining: A Philadelphia Quaker and the education of the Japanese Imperial Crown Prince / Paul B. Reagan

Chapter 12: The public speeches of Elizabeth Gray Vining in Japan and the United States / Cynthia L. Daugherty

Chapter 13: Friends and the LARA postwar relief efforts to Japan / Masako Iino

Chapter 14: Quaker connections with women's educational leadership in Japan / Tetsuko Toda

Part 5: Futures: archives "Bearing witness". Chapter 15: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan: archival sources in the collections at Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Susanna Koethe Morikawa

Chapter 16: Quakers and Japan: Archival and manuscript materials at Haverford College / Sarah M. Horowitz

Chapter 17: A brief history of American Friends Service Committee work on behalf of Japan and the Japanese people / Donald Davis - Afterword / Tetsuko Toda - Glossary of Quaker terms.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Friendly connections

ISBN:

9781793623331

1793623333

OCLC:

1416896173