JAPAN SOCIETY TIMELINE

1907 1911 1918 May 19 , 1907 : Japan Society founded by Annual lecture series initiated (lectures Japan Society Bulletin of February 28 , 1918 , Lindsay Russell, Hamilton Holt, Jacob Schiff, usually held at the Hotel Astor or at The exhorted readers: “Isn’t it worth your while August Belmont, and other prominent Metropolitan Museum of Art, drawing to spend fifteen minutes a month on Japan? Americans on the occasion of the May visit several hundred people); lectures from The day has passed when we needed to think to New York by General Baron Tamesada the first year included Toyokichi Ienaga only in terms of our own country. The inter - Kuroki and Vice Admiral Goro Ijuin. on “The Positions of the United States and national mind is of today. Read this Bulletin Japan in the Far East” and Frederick W. of the Japan Society and learn something John H. Finley, president of City College, Gookin on Japanese color prints. new about your nearest Western neighbor. elected Japan Society’s first president. Japan has much to teach us. Preparedness is Japan Society’s first art exhibition held Purpose of the Society set forth as “the pro - the watchword of the day: don’t forget that (ukiyo-e prints borrowed from private motion of friendly relations between the this includes mental preparedness. It is just collections and shown at 200 Fifth Avenue), United States and Japan and the diffusion as important to think straight as to shoot attended by about 8,000 people. among the American people of a more accu - straight. Spend fifteen minutes developing rate knowledge of the people of Japan, their Lindsay Russell and Hamilton Holt visited the international side of your mind.” aims, ideals, arts, sciences, industries, and Japan and were granted an audience with economic conditions.” the Meiji Emperor. 1919 General Kuroki quoted as saying, “I am Gerald M. Dahl, vice president of First National immensely pleased with this country and the 1912 City Bank, elected president of Japan Society. reception I have received here. I like your Japan Society began organizing tours to Former Society president Lindsay Russell country and your people. They are hustlers, Japan and the Far East. like my own.” dedicated his time to raising a permanent Temporary Japanese garden and teahouse endowment fund for the Society, later named constructed on the roof of the Hotel Astor the Townsend Harris Fund, for disseminating 1908 as a special project of the Society to serve information about Japan to Americans. Japan Society issued its first publication, as a setting for periodic lectures, tea cere - Former Prime Minister Marquis Shigenobu a yearbook that continued to be published mony, and noh performances. Okuma quoted in the Society’s Bulletin : “I have until the 1930 s, containing names of the often expressed my view of the absurdity officers and members, a list of the Society’s 1913 of talking of a conflict between Japan and activities, information about Japan and the America, as I firmly believe there is no serious Japanese, pictures of the Emperor, the text Japan Society incorporated under the laws reason for such a conflict, while there is every of the Japanese national anthem, and travel of the state of New York. need for the cooperation of the two nations.” tips for visitors to Japan. Society headquarters established at 165 Broadway. For a while during the World War I period, 1909 the Society’s offices were used by the Anti- Publication of the Society’s first newsletter, Alien Legislation Committee, an openly polit - Dinner held in honor of Their Imperial the monthly Japan Society Bulletin . ical pressure group against discriminatory Highnesses Prince and Princess Kuni. Society began efforts to improve academic legislation toward Japanese immigrants. teaching about Japan in the U.S. 1910 Publication of the Society’s first book, 1920 Lindsay Russell elected president of Japan Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers Frank H. Vanderlip, president of First National Society. by Frederick W. Gookin. City Bank, elected president of Japan Society.

Luncheons held in honor of Prince Iyesato Society’s offices moved to 25 West 43 rd Street. Tokugawa, the heir of the last Tokugawa 1916 Shogun, and Their Imperial Highnesses First commercial (corporate) memberships Publication began of the Trade Bulletin , provid- Prince and Princess Hiroyasu Fushimi. established. ing information on Japan’s economic activities Dinner held in honor of Yukio Ozaki, Mayor to Society members, chambers of commerce , Japanese Advisory Committee of prominent of Tokyo (remembered in the U.S. as the corporations, and banking institutions. local Japanese business leaders established. donor, on behalf of the city of Tokyo, of the Publication of 1,000 copies of a pamphlet Garden party held at Vanderlip’s home, with famous Washington, D.C., cherry trees). entitled The Japanese Problem and the more than 600 people attending. Committee on Arts and Literature established. United States .

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 97 1921 1925 1933 Japan Society engaged Yale historian Japan Society’s Annual Dinner broadcast Japan Society assisted in the publication Kenneth Scott Latourette to prepare a syl - on the radio and reviewed favorably in the of Art, Life, and Nature in Japan by Professor labus of Japan, which was published in eight New York Herald Tribune . Masaharu Anesaki, commemorating the editions over the following fifteen years. Society’s twenty-fifth anniversary. Society published pamphlet containing “ 25 Former Japan Society president Louis V. questions commonly asked about Japan with Society activities confined to publication Ledoux wrote an article for The New York adequate answers to same ... ,” selling over of books on the arts of Japan. Times titled “Yankee Humor in Japan,” 3,000 copies in the first year. “It is to the credit of the individuals who stating that “America and Japan distrust founded the Japan Society, developed its and misunderstand each other, but if ever Mid- 1920s programs, and guided it, especially during the twain shall meet it may be humor, the difficult period of the 1930 s, that they the universal solvent, the curer of enmity, Educational activities of the Society expanded carefully avoided involvement in political that will bring them together.” by a traveling exhibition of characteristic Japanese artifacts and the compilation of a problems on either side.” (Japan Society set of slides to be lent on request, together 1957 annual report.) 1922 with accompanying lectures. Japan Society sponsored its first film screen - 1934 ing, a four-reel film of then Crown Prince 1926–28 Henry W. Taft re-elected president of Japan Hirohito’s 1921 visit to Europe (first trip Society. abroad made by incumbent or designated Japan Society Annual Dinners attracted over occupant of Japanese throne), before a 1,000 people per year. Society’s exhibition, About Japan: Japanese capacity crowd of almost 600 . Society membership climbed to a prewar Paintings, Aspects of Japanese Art and Culture , held at the Century Club. Society presented the Japanese Literary high of 1,300 . Society’s performance of Crimson Camelia in Japanese before an audience of over 700 . 1927 1935 From the 1922 membership brochure: “The Japan Society published The Art of Japan by Japan Society’s offices moved to Japan Society is an association of Americans, Louis V. Ledoux. 527 Fifth Avenue. and some Japanese, who, appreciating the increasing importance of the Far East in 1928 1941 world affairs, desire to create and sustain a Henry W. Taft resigned as Japan Society broader and more intelligent understanding Japan Society received and displayed Good president on December 8. of Japan and the advantages that will result Will Dolls sent to America by more than from a sound and stable Japanese-American 2,500,000 school children in Japan in return Louis V. Ledoux assumed leadership role and relationship. To accomplish this broad edu - for Doll Messengers of Good Will sent by arranged for suspension of the Society’s cational purpose, the Society gives illustrated American school children the previous year. activities during the war. lectures, [and] prints and distributes author - itative books and bulletins on different phases 1929 1942 of Japanese life and activities.” Alexander Tison, a lawyer who had taught Louis V. Ledoux elected president of Japan law at the Imperial University in Tokyo, Society. 1923 elected president of Japan Society. Society’s offices closed, but Paolino Gerli, head Henry W. Taft, brother of U.S. President Following the October financial crash, of a silk importing firm and a Society director William Howard Taft, elected president of Society membership began to decline. from 1913 to 1970 , safely kept the records, Japan Society. bonds, and endowment fund of the Society Society raised a fund of $117,476.50 toward 1930 until after the war, when the Society could begin its activities again. He was the Society’s relief and reconstruction following earth - Japan Society’s offices moved to treasurer from 1952 to 1963 , and honorary quake devastation of Tokyo and Yokohama 36 West 44 th Street. ($100,000 to general relief purposes; $10,000 director from 1970 to 1981 , with sixty-eight to rebuild Tsuda College, a Christian institute years of association with the Society. for girls; balance for reconstruction of St. 1931 Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo). George W. Wickersham elected president 1947 of Japan Society. Japan Society directors assembled for their first meeting in five years to begin the work of revitalizing the organization.

98 1948 “In 1951 , JDR had become a member of the In the annual report, Society president John Dulles mission to Japan, which resulted in D. Rockefeller 3rd noted the return of sover - Following Louis V. Ledoux’s death, Japan the San Francisco peace treaty. He was given eignty to Japan as well as the resumption of Society vice president Harold Henderson the assignment from Dulles to take a good, full-scale activities at the Society. Under his served as interim leader. close look at cultural and educational rela - leadership, from 1952 –78 —twenty-six years tions between Japan and the United States Society leadership decided to resume and to plan to make a master plan of the fur - of continuous service, longer than for any full-scale activity only after formal peace therance of these cultural and educational other organization, the Society grew to be a treaty signed. relations, not only in the public sector but real force in U.S.-Japan relations. also in the private sector. In preparing his report, he sought the help of the State Depart- Series of teas held to introduce New York 1950 ment and after several months, came up with area Japanese students to Society members. Harold Henderson elected president of a rather comprehensive report which offered Interpretation of Japan to Americans decided Japan Society. a blueprint for United States-Japanese rela - tions in the post-treaty period. It was essen - as the primary emphasis of the Society. tial to have two anchors if Japanese-American “The Society’s long range objective is to help cultural relations were to flourish. These 1951 bring the people of the United States and of anchors were to be two organizations, one Formal peace treaty between Japan and the Japan closer together in their appreciation in Tokyo and one in New York, privately and understanding of each other and each United States signed. sponsored and having nothing to do with other’s way of life.”—John D. Rockefeller 3rd either of the governments. The so-called Japan Society held its first social event after Japanese institute which had been envisaged the war, a luncheon in honor of Takashi in New York eventually turned out to be 1953 Komatsu, president of America-Japan Japan Society. (from transcript entitled An Society of Tokyo. Oral History of Japan Society, With Reference to Eleanor Roosevelt traveled to Japan on the the Years 1952 –1967 , by Douglas Overton, Intellectual Interchange Program. John D. Rockefeller 3rd [JDR] established executive director of Japan Society, 1952 –67 ) the Intellectual Interchange Program: an Dinner held in honor of Crown Prince Akihito exchange of leading Japanese and American Society bylaws and organizational structure attended by 1,500 . thinkers from the worlds of art, literature, revised. Performing Arts Program established; first law, and political science who visited each Executive, Arts and Literature, Membership, performance was “Kabuki by the Fujima other’s countries, met with their counter - Hospitality, and Finance Committees Sisters and Noh by the Students of Moravian parts, and gave public lectures. Shigeharu established. College for Women.” (Held at the Rotunda, Matsumoto, who acted as chief Japanese Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, collaborator with JDR in the creation of The Douglas Overton, Foreign Service officer and and co-sponsored with the Brander Matthews International House of Japan (I-House) and State Department official, appointed the Dramatic Museum and the Japan Society of served as chairman until his death in 1989 , Society’s first executive director (he was the Columbia University.) ran the program in Japan. In New York, deputy Japan desk officer who helped JDR Harry J. Carman, professor of history and with the report assigned by Dulles). Japan Society began publication of the Japan retired dean of Columbia College, was Temporary Society headquarters set up at Forum newsletter for members. designated to head the program, assisted 119 West 40 th Street, later moved to Savoy- Society-sponsored television program on by Hugh Borton of the East Asian Institute. Plaza, Fifth Avenue and 58 th Street, room 368 . Japanese arts aired. It was not long until the Society assumed responsibility for the program. Periodically Dinner held at the Plaza Hotel in honor of New priority in aiding Japanese students in between 1951 and the late 1990 s, Intellectual Japan’s first postwar ambassador to Wash- the U.S. set with the establishment of a stu - Interchange Fellows included: Robert ington, Eikichi Araki; the first major postwar dent emergency fund and a scholarship fund. Oppenheimer; Eleanor Roosevelt; Paul function of the Society. U.S. State Department designated the Society Tillich; Fusae Ichikawa (the grande dame of “Less than eighteen months after JDR had as an official sponsor for exchange visitors. the women’s suffrage movement in Japan); traveled to Tokyo with the Dulles peace mis - Norman Cousins; former minister of educa - sion, the projects in Japanese-American rela - Society supported a Japanese art exhibition tion Michio Nagai; novelists Saul Bellow and tions he had been busy generating already at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Shusaku Endo; poet Makoto Ooka; political had the sweet smell of success about them. This was evident on June 17 , 1952 , when New What Shall I Read on Japan? , a bibliographic commentator Garry Wills; and journalist Yorkers saw something they had not seen and teaching aid, published; between 1953 Robert MacNeil. in many years—the Rising Sun flag of Japan and 1973 , twelve editions (more than proudly displayed along Fifth Avenue. The 100,000 copies) distributed nationwide. 1952 occasion was the first annual banquet of the Japan Society, taking place only three months John D. Rockefeller 3rd elected president of after the skillful reorganization of the Soci- Japan Society; John Foster Dulles elected ety’s board ... ” ( The Rockefeller Century , by chairman. John Ensor Harr and Peter J. Johnson, p. 517 )

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 99 Society sponsored: a touring exhibition by Society influential in establishing translation At the request of Joseph Grew, the last woodblock artist Toshi Yoshida; a display of program with help of Harold Strauss of Knopf prewar American ambassador to Japan, the Japanese utilitarian arts at East River Savings (including works by Tanizaki and Mishima Society helped to arrange the final year of Bank; an evening of Japanese dance co- in translations by Edward Seidensticker and study for the grandson of Count Kabayama sponsored by International House at Columbia; Donald Keene). at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. a performance of Madame Butterfly by Fujiwara Opera Company; a lecture on “A Woman’s 1955 1957 Life in the New Japan”; and an evening dis - cussion on Japanese-American relations. Japan Society distributed “Teacher Packets” “This is the fiftieth anniversary of the found - on Japan to American high schools. ing of the Japan Society and the fifth year of Decision made that the Society focus the its postwar reactivation.” (Japan Society 1957 major portion of its energy and resources Traveling exhibits and performing arts pro - annual report) in these specific areas: Japanese students in grams made available to New York area America; cultural exchange; improving edu - educational and cultural institutions. Society offices at 18 East 50 th Street shared cation about Japan in the U.S.; and the with the newly formed Asia Society. Dr. William Cullen Bryant II (head of American teaching of English in Japan. Language Center at Columbia) sent to Society’s Performing Arts Program spon - Sum of $1,500 made available to send one Japan to investigate how the Society and sored a series of performances to showcase or more outstanding American students to others could help English-language teaching young Japanese artists in both traditional a revived annual Japan-America Student in Japan; English Language Education and contemporary fields, including classical Conference. Council (ELEC) established as a result. dancer Suzushi Hanayagi and avant-garde musician Yoko Ono. Society engaged in a new program of recep - Society held reception at the Columbia tions and home visits for Japanese students— Faculty Club for actress Machiko Kyo. Three performers demonstrated three differ - twenty members and friends provided ent Japanese arts in a forty-minute program Society (backed by a grant from John D. hospitality to sixty-six students in the New that reached 12,000 students in the New York Rockefeller 3rd and the cooperation of York area, ninety-eight students attended area during a single academic year. International Film Foundation) sent Julien receptions at the Society, and seventy-five Bryan to Japan to make a film on the modern Society membership reached 1,000 . took advantage of a counseling service Japanese economy titled Japan —an instant offered by the Society to give advice on Dinner held in honor of Prime Minister success in American schools, it sold about money, budgets, and daily living. Nobusuke Kishi. 250 copies a year well into the 1960 s. One hundred and forty-seven New York Cultural Interchange Committee at the 1954 area high school teachers attended course Society began sending American books to of fifteen weekly lectures on Japan and Japan Society had a full-time staff of five. Japan, where wartime restrictions and post - received credit from Board of Education, war poverty had deprived libraries of recent Assistance to visiting Japanese students double the number anticipated. publications. offered through a grants-in-aid program Exhibition of Twentieth Century Design , an exhi - concentrating on potential leaders. Executors of the estate of Japanese soprano bition of American art jointly sponsored by Tamaki Miura, who had sung before King Exchange of scholars between the U.S. and Japan Society and the Museum of Modern Art George V and Queen Mary at Albert Hall in Japan established as an ongoing program. on the American side and by the National Mu- 1914 , asked the Society to carry out Miura’s seum of Modern Art and the Asahi newspapers Society members participated in hospitality wishes in having the elaborately embroidered on the Japanese side, traveled to four major programs for students. robe she had worn in 300 performances of Japanese cities during winter/spring of 1957 ; Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly given to the Society active in distributing documentary in Tokyo alone, 37,000 persons, including Her people of the U.S. (It was presented to the films and slides for use in American schools. Majesty the Empress, visited the exhibition. Metropolitan Opera Company). Society sponsored U.S. premieres of the films Ugetsu and Jigokumon (Gate of Hell ). 1958 1956 Japanese potter Rosanjin visited the U.S. to Japan Society sponsored a new organization, Japan Society sponsored a major art give lectures and demonstrations. the Nichibei Fujinkai, designed to bring Ameri- exhibition of kimono from the Nomura can and Japanese women in the New York Dinner held in honor of Prime Minister Robe Collection at The Metropolitan area together; Nichibei Fujinkai is still active. Shigeru Yoshida. Museum of Art. In a single week, the Society answered 139 One-year experimental program of summer Society sponsored two important books, requests for general information, booked fifty school lectureships established for young Herschel Webb’s Introduction to Japan films and recordings, and arranged twenty- Japanese teachers to speak on Japanese and Donald Keene’s Anthology of Japanese one appearances for speakers and performers. civilization at New York area colleges. Literature in the 1955–56 fiscal year.

100 Society’s publication program sponsored two Heavy emphasis on role of Japanese studies Society received a citation from the Parsons significant new books: Harold G. Henderson’s in American education continued, particularly School Alumni Association for “outstanding An Introduction to Haiku (Doubleday, 1958 ) at the college and high school levels. Grants accomplishments in the arts.” and the second edition of The Complete made for continuance of full semester Journal of Townsend Harris (Tuttle, 1959 ), courses on Japan, Present, Past and Future . 1964 which replaced the original volume published In the performing arts, special grants from the by the Society in 1930 . 1961 JDR 3rd Fund (present Asian Cultural Council) Traveling exhibits program brought two cal - Japan Society’s annual budget at about made it possible for Japan Society to sponsor ligraphy exhibitions and three new exhibits $100,000 . three significant events in New York during of contemporary prints to universities and the year. The first, Japan Week at Philharmonic libraries throughout the U.S. Luncheon held in honor of Prime Minister Hall in Lincoln Center, featured nightly con - Hayato Ikeda, at which Ikeda gave a major certs by the Toho Gakuen String Orchestra, policy speech. 1959 an ensemble made up of thirty-five girls and To raise standards of English teaching in twenty-five boys, all students at the Toho Japan Society’s offices moved to the new Japan through teacher training and the Conservatory. The opening concerts were led Asia House at 112 East 64 th Street, in a development of new teaching materials, by Seiji Ozawa, the school’s most famous space shared with the Asia Society. Society supported ELEC in Tokyo. alumnus, who went on to become the longest Woodblock print artist Shiko Munakata leading conductor of the Boston Symphony. Weekend conference held of key staff from arrived in the U.S. for a six-month visit as the oldest and largest Japan Societies of Another grant made it possible for the Japan a Japan Society Fellow. America: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra to tour Gagaku , the musicians and dancers of the Orleans, New York, Portland, San Francisco, the United States; the orchestra appeared in Imperial Household, traveled to New York Seattle, and Washington; now a part of the thirty American cities during its six-week visit. and four other cities with the help of the National Association of Japan-America A third grant enabled the Society to embark Society; this early Japanese court music and Societies (NAJAS). on a new project in educational television, dance of the eighth and ninth centuries attracted designed to bring to the public a series of capacity houses at New York City Center. 1962 half-hour shows on various aspects of the Traveling exhibits program doubled in scope, arts of Japan. Four programs, on Koto, Folk Success of Japan Society’s programs occa - with a total of eighty showings in fifty-seven Dance, Noh , and The Art of the Wood Block sioned a general review in 1962 to assess its different American and Canadian cities. were produced and taped, and shown several accomplishments and plan for the future. times on New York’s Channel 13. Exhibition of fifty-five Japanese haniwa from Board of Directors meeting in December the collection of the Tokyo National Museum Supported by the Council on International 1962 raised the question of the possibility of sent on tour in 1959 –60 to six cities in the Educational Exchange, student charter flights expanding into programs related to political U.S. by the government of Japan, jointly spon- to Japan inaugurated with Council on and economic affairs; Board agreed that this sored by Japan Society and the Society for Student Travel. issue should be explored and appointed a International Cultural Relations (K.B.S.), Tokyo. committee to investigate. 1965 1960 1963 Asia House became too small to house both Dinners held in honor of former Prime an expanding Japan Society and the Asia Formal decision on behalf of Japan Society Minister Shigeru Yoshida and other visiting Society; it was tentatively decided that Japan to uphold nonpartisan stance by continuing dignitaries on the occasion of the U.S.-Japan Society should have a building of its own, policy to avoid advocacy of any specific posi - centennial year, and in honor of Crown and a committee was set up under James tion on political or economic relations. Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. Voss, chairman of Caltex Petroleum, to make In 1962 –63 , inquiries from the general public recommendations. Society co-sponsored first American tour exceeded 5,000 ; a total of 25,021 pamphlets of Grand Kabuki with K.B.S. Shiko Munakata’s second visit under Society and other items mailed on request. auspices; he was awarded Honorary Doctor Ambitious project with National Educational Society’s book of the year was The Black Ship of Humane Letters at Dartmouth College. Television and Radio Center and the Univer- Scroll , reproductions of a series of watercolors sity of Michigan produced Japan: People and by an unknown Japanese artist working at Society , a series of ten half-hour programs on 1966 the time of the Perry Expedition, accompa - contemporary Japanese life and culture. nied by a text written by Society member Japan Society moved to temporary quarters Oliver Statler. at 250 Park Avenue.

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 101 Decision made to build a permanent head - Just before the historic Okinawa reversion First postwar Annual Dinner drew 1,000 to quarters, Japan House, in New York, and a agreement, the Society entertained a stream the Waldorf-Astoria to hear Secretary of site chosen on East 47 th Street, near the of distinguished visitors, including Prime State William P. Rodgers. United Nations. Minister Eisaku Sato; former Prime Minister Tokyo String Quartet performed in the new Nobosuke Kishi; Kiichi Aichi, Minister of auditorium as part of opening week. 1967 Foreign Affairs; and Takeo Fukuda, Minister of Finance and later prime minister. Japan Society’s sixtieth anniversary, the 1972 Together with the Johnson Foundation, the fifteenth since postwar reactivation, marked Society co-sponsored the Wingspread con - Beginning of Japan Society film series, by a dinner for Eisaku Sato, the new prime ference, After Okinawa: Japan and the United with films of director Hiroshi Teshigahara minister of Japan. States in the 1970 s, in Racine, Wisconsin. (Woman in the Dunes , The Face of Another ). Champagne reception and private viewing Japanese Film Festival opened at the Society developed a program through which held on the opening night of sculptor Isamu Museum of Modern Art, featuring Akira seventeen American broadcasting execu - Noguchi’s first retrospective at the Whitney Kurosawa’s first film, Sugata Sanshiro (1943 ). tives visited Japan for a joint conference. Museum of American Art. Grand Kabuki program presented at First United States-Japan Television Program Artist Shiko Munakata visited New York City Center. Festival held at the Society. through arrangements by the Society, his third visit. Society’s Japanese language education 1970 program started, with a single class. Junzo Yoshimura officially chosen as architect of new Japan House. Isaac Shapiro elected president of Japan Society; John D. Rockefeller 3rd became 1973 chairman. 1968 The Ledoux Heritage: The Collecting of Ukiyo-e Society received Japan Foundation Award. Master Prints exhibited at the Gallery; Society designated secretariat of American John Canaday of The New York Times wrote: panel of U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural Major year for the arts, including a premiere “Nobody with the slightest interest in and Educational Interchange (CULCON), and benefit screening of Tora! Tora! Tora! ; the Japanese art can be kept away from a show a group of leading businessmen, scholars, debut performance in New York of the Tokyo bearing the double guarantee of absolutely media professionals, and policymakers who String Quartet, followed by a reception; and top quality provided by the combined names met every two years to encourage cultural a joint opening with the Guggenheim of a of Japan House and Ledoux ... ” and educational interchange. major exhibit, Contemporary Japanese Art: Fifth Japan Art Festival . Namban Art: The Art of the Southern Barbarians Program of lecture/luncheons for corporate During the Momoyama Period lauded by major members established. By 1970 , Japanese were the largest single media as the most important exhibition to tourist visitor group to the U.S., and the date on early Western influence in Japanese Society a major stopping point for Japanese 1969 art; some items never before exhibited. visitors to New York. September 16 , 1969 : Japan Society president New York Mayor John V. Lindsay gave the John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Japan’s Minister welcoming speech at a reception for Prime 1971 of Foreign Affairs Kiichi Aichi participated Minister Kakuei Tanaka, Finance Minister in a ground-breaking ceremony for Japan September 13 , 1971 : Opening of Japan House, Kiichi Aichi, and Foreign Minister (later House, Japan Society’s new headquarters. the first building of contemporary Japanese prime minister) Masayoshi Ohira. design to be erected in New York, designed by Smithsonian exhibition, The Japan Exhibition Expanded programming evolved in response Junzo Yoshimura; Their Imperial Highnesses 1852 –55 of Commodore Matthew Calbraith to Japan’s emergence as an economic power. Prince and Princess Hitachi were opening- Perry , brought to New York through the ceremony guests at the week-long celebration Society and Union Carbide, attracted more in September. 1974 than 20,000 visitors over a five-week period; a founding member of the Society and vice Permanent art gallery opened in the new Eleven visiting Japanese journalists toured president from 1910 –19 , August Belmont was building, with first exhibition, Rimpa: Master- the U.S. under the sponsorship of Japan a grandson of the Commodore. works of the Japanese Decorative School , about Society and the International Press Institute. which John Canaday of The New York Times Society helped bring Grand Kabuki to New Society-produced television tapes on Japan- wrote: “A new gallery, a beautiful show.” York for the first full-scale performances in ese performing arts, The Japan Society Presents , the U.S. During the first two months after opening its continued to be shown in the U.S. by PBS and new headquarters, the Society drew 22,000 in Japan by Nippon Educational TV. visitors to its building, exhibitions, and events.

102 First public performance in New York of Summer film series held of twenty-four films gest the extent of his contribution to the contemporary Japanese music for Western on Women in Japanese Cinema , with opening Japan Society and to the larger purpose of instruments held at the Society. appearances by Hideko Takamine, the lead - understanding and friendship between Japan and the United States. John Rockefeller ing female actor of the time, and her film Grand piano donated to the Society by the thought about the long-range problems, and director husband, Zenzo Matsuyama. Japanese business community. to deal with them he built institutions: Long More than 10,000 moviegoers attended films before most people appreciated the impor - In the 1974 –75 fiscal year, the Society tance of Japan and the need for strong ties at the Society during 1975 –76 . screened sixty films, reaching an aggregate between the two great Pacific democracies, audience of over 9,000 people. Dancer-choreographers Eiko & Koma made he dedicated his efforts to rebuilding the their U.S. debut at Japan Society. Japan Society. Through the years he provided Society-organized Main Currents in Modern wise counsel on all the important issues fac - Japan radio series, launched November 2, 1974 , ing the Society and on many of the issues of on WNYC-AM with moderator Lee Graham. 1977 Japan-U.S. relations. It was his vision and leadership which made Japan House possible, Masayoshi Ohira, Foreign Minister of Japan, Andrew N. Overby elected president of tangible evidence of the Society’s stature.” delivered a major policy address before an Japan Society. Robert S. Ingersoll became Society chairman audience of 1,300 at the Society’s fourth Premiere of Society-produced documentary, and David Rockefeller elected honorary Annual Dinner. Shinto: Nature, Gods and Man in Japan , in the chairman. Society’s publication, What Shall I Read on U.S. and Japan; film later won a number of During 1977 –78 , film, performing arts, visual Japan? , went into its eleventh printing. awards and was a finalist at the 1978 arts, and lecture programs brought 60,000 American Film Festival. Printmaker Shiko Munakata’s fourth and visitors to the Society. final visit to New York, before his death the Society published, with Columbia University, following year in Japan. a study on the Economic Impact of the 1979 Japanese Business Community in New York . In October, at the annual meeting of the Board, 1975 The Tokugawa Collection: No Robes and Masks , Andrew N. Overby retired as president of first on view at Japan Society Gallery, Henry Kissinger keynote speaker at the Japan Society; five months earlier, in May, opened in the National Gallery of Art in Annual Dinner. the bylaws had been amended to provide Washington, D.C. that the president be a paid professional, Prime Minister Takeo Miki addressed a Fall series of films starring Tatsuya Nakadai, as at most large nonprofit organizations. dinner in his honor. with Nakadai appearing in person. At the same meeting, David MacEachron Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress was elected the first paid president. of Japan visited Japan Society during their 1978 Japan Film Center established, putting the American tour. Society’s film program on a national scale At a Japan Society luncheon co-sponsored Gallery exhibited Art Treasures from the and also serving as an information resource with the Foreign Policy Association, Prime Imperial Collections , many of which had never on Japanese cinema to provide educators Minister Takeo Fukuda delivered his only been seen before, drawing a record number with high-quality documentaries and films public address during his visit to the U.S. of 27,000 visitors in seventeen days. for teaching American students about Japan. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Novelist Shusaku Endo visited New York on Society offered the largest national program Princess Hitachi visited the Society. the Intellectual Interchange Program. it had ever undertaken, in cooperation with Society began to co-sponsor the Parliamen- other Japan Societies: Japan Today , a six- Society undertook a program to distribute NHK tary Exchange Program with the Japan week program of 530 concurrent events in films to American educational institutions. Center for International Exchange, to bring seven major cities—New York, Chicago, First of a large-scale conference series held Japanese Diet members to U.S. and send Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington, that generated a network of international American congressmen to Japan. and Boston—to present a panorama of the contacts and important publications. economy, culture, and politics of Japan John D. Rockefeller 3rd tragically killed on to the general public. Over 130 films were During the 1975 –76 season, more than 200 July 10 ; on September 7, a special meeting of screened; ninety performing arts events events drew 80,000 people to the Society. the Board of Directors called and the follow - or related lectures held, including events ing statement unanimously adopted: designed for young audiences, such as pup - 1976 “John D. Rockefeller 3rd served as President pet shows, workshops in origami, poetry of the Japan Society from 1952 to 1969 and contests, and kite flying. Business Education Program established to from then until his death on July 10 , 1978 as develop and improve education on Japan at Chairman of the Board—twenty-six years of Gallery exhibited Chanoyu: Japanese Tea American graduate schools. continuous leadership. These facts only sug - Ceremony .

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 103 1980 1982 Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan performed highlights from five masterpieces. The ten- Exquisite Visions: Rimpa Paintings from Japan Japan Society’s seventy-fifth anniversary, man troupe appeared for three performances exhibited, complementing a 1971 exhibition highlighted by performances of Grand in Honolulu prior to ten performances at the of Rimpa paintings from American collections. Kabuki of Japan with Narukami , Migawari- Society and two performances in Boston. zazen , and Sumidagawa , and featuring Living CULCON X, celebrating CULCON’S tenth National Treasures Utaemon, Kanzaburo, anniversary, held in Washington, D.C. and Shizutayu on a one-month, three-city 1984 Treasury Secretary G. William Miller U.S. debut tour produced by Japan Society Japan Society Award established, first con - addressed a Society luncheon. and managed by the Metropolitan Opera. ferred upon Ambassador Nobuhiko Ushiba Performed at the Metropolitan Opera House Prior to the national telecast of the television for outstanding contributions to U.S.-Japan in New York, the World’s Fair in Knoxville, series Shogun , the Film Center co-sponsored relations. Tennessee, and the Kennedy Center in with NBC a gala preview of excerpts from Washington, D.C. Two actors from the pro - U.S.-Japan Leadership Program launched, the twelve-hour film. Author James Clavell, duction appeared on NBC’s Today show. providing fellowships in Japan to national writer- producer Eric Bercovici, director Jerry leaders in journalism, business, labor, London, and actress Yoko Shimada were Publication of the Society’s seventy-fifth government, and academia. present at the premiere. A special display of anniversary book: Japan Society 1907 –19 82 : armor, swords, documents, and other arti - 75 Years of Partnership Across the Pacific by Indoor and outdoor performances of the facts associated with Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Edwin O. Reischauer. Nomura Kyogen Theater produced; three historical shogun on whom the novel and outdoor performances held on a stage built Ozu: Thirty-Four Films presented a complete film were based, was also on view. for the first time over the reflecting pool retrospective of the extant films of in the North Plaza at Lincoln Center. (In Yasujiro Ozu. 1985 , Mazda published a booklet, Tamasa- 1981 Between 1971 and 1982 , the Gallery held buro in New York , commemorating Bando Japan Society launched a year-long celebra - thirty-four exhibitions. Tamasaburo V’s 1984 kabuki dance appear - tion of its seventy-fifth anniversary, with ance at the 100 th anniversary gala of the Gallery and Performing Arts Program director Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Metropolitan Opera Association at Lincoln Rand Castile was one of six people honored Hitachi at the opening ceremonies. Center. Sponsored by Japan Society and by New York City Mayor Edward Koch at underwritten by the Mazda Motor Corpora- Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki addressed the the sixth Mayor’s Awards of Honor for Arts tion, his appearance also included perform - Annual Dinner. and Culture. ances at Japan Society and at the Japanese Gallery’s seventy-fifth anniversary exhibition American Cultural and Community Center was Horyu-ji: Temple of the Exalted Law— 1983 at Los Angeles.) Early Buddhist Art from Japan . Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was the Actor Toshiro Mifune and numerous interna - A retrospective of all twenty-six films of guest speaker at the Annual Dinner. tional film celebrities attended a gala evening director Akira Kurosawa held; Kurosawa, launching the Society’s major film series, Secretary of State George P. Shultz delivered attending the opening of the series, was A Tribute to Toshiro Mifune (March 7– the keynote address to the Sixth Shimoda introduced by Francis Ford Coppola as “one April 29 , 1984 ). Conference , held for the first time in the U.S. of the greatest living masters of the cinema.” Society installed its first computer system, a Metropolis: Locus of Contemporary Myths Fifth Shimoda Conference convened in Digital Equipment Corporation minicomputer, brought together thirty-two Japanese and Oiso, Japan. the PDP 11/44 , with twelve terminals, one for American experts in various aspects of each department. A book of essays, Japan Today , was published urban life to exchange ideas on social based on panel discussions held during 1971 . structure, human relations, urban culture, architecture, and design. 1985 The Films of Kenji Mizoguchi , a thirty-one-film series, co-sponsored with The Museum of Conference in Hakone, co-sponsored with Cyrus R. Vance succeeded Robert S. Ingersoll Modern Art. The International House of Japan (I-House), as chairman of Japan Society. commemorated the thirtieth anniversary of Japan Society Newsletter reached 5,000 Dinner given at I-House in Tokyo to introduce I-House and the seventy-fifth anniversary readers each month, with feature articles Vance as chairman of Japan Society to the of Japan Society. focused on a wide range of topics including Japanese community, with guests of honor cross-cultural communication, Japanese Kanban: Shop Signs of Japan , the first exhibi - Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Prince drama, poetry, the economy, China-Japan tion of traditional Japanese trade signs to Akihito and Princess Michiko. relations, cuisine, and Japanese decorative arts. tour the U.S., shown at the Gallery.

104 Ambassador Mike Mansfield guest speaker 1987 As part of the First New York International at Annual Dinner; Mansfield also received Festival of the Arts, Toru Takemitsu and Sound “I have high expectations for the future role the Japan Society Award for his contributions Space ARK presented a series of four concerts of the Japan Society, with its illustrious his - to U.S.-Japan relations. of contemporary Japanese and American tory and varied achievements of the past chamber music under the artistic direction Seven years into the Parliamentary Exchange eighty years,” said His Imperial Highness of Toru Takemitsu. program, forty members of Congress had Crown Prince Akihito on October 8 at a had an intense exposure to Japan and an Japan Society gala with a formal dinner in equal number of Diet members had had a the Gallery, followed by a concert in the 1989 similar experience in the U.S. auditorium with Carol Vaness and Aprile David MacEachron stepped down in April as Millo of the Metropolitan Opera and Ron His Imperial Highness Prince Naruhito visited president of Japan Society; he passed away Richardson, star and Tony winner of Big River the Society. the following January. (who went on to Japan to repeat his role in Nearly 50,000 people attended the Grand Japanese, which was attended by Their William H. Gleysteen, Jr. became president Sumo Tournament at Madison Square Imperial Highnesses on opening night) and of Japan Society. Garden, the first full-fledged sumo tourna - Billy Taylor and His Trio. CBS anchorman Dan Rather lectured at the ment in the U.S., co-sponsored by the Gallery exhibition Paris in Japan: The Japanese Society on “Making Foreign News Less Foreign.” Society and the Asia Society. Encounter with European Painting , described More than 1,900 people attended the Society’s In its fourth year, the Public Affairs Outreach by The New York Times as bringing “a fresh Annual Dinner, featuring keynote speaker Service, a national program resource stimulating perspective on both Paris and Japan in the Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan. Japan-related programming across the U.S., late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” had expanded its programming into seventeen Governor of New York Mario Cuomo delivered Eighty Japanese and American leaders gath - new cities, and arranged programs in fifty-three the keynote address at the conference Global ered in Oiso, Japan, for the Seventh Shimoda locations nationwide, from Anchorage to San Leadership in the 1990 s: The Roles of the U.S., Conference , three days of wide-ranging dis - Diego, and from Portland to Tallahassee. Japan and Europe . cussion on the U.S.-Japan relationship. American Public Opinion on Japanese Direct Tokyo: Form and Spirit , an exhibition devel - 1986 Investment by Duane Kujawa and Daniel oped by the Walker Art Center in Bob, a publication resulting from a one-year Gallery exhibited The Burghley Porcelains: An Minneapolis and the Society, and held at the research project through the U.S.-Japan Exhibition from The Burghley House Collection IBM Gallery of Science and Art in New York, Program, received considerable press atten - and Based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 viewed by 140,000 people. tion from both American and Japanese media. Devonshire Schedule , followed by a Friends of the Gallery Tour to Burghley House, the 1988 Elizabethan home of the Marquess of Exeter 1990 in Stamford, UK. American delegation of the U.S.-Japan Kita Noh Theater and Nomura Kyogen marked Parliamentary Exchange Program included Joint conference with American Bar the first full performances of classical drama both House Majority Leader Thomas Foley Association on U.S.-Japan trade issues. and comedy presented on the Society’s stage. and Minority Leader Robert Michel. Chrysler Corporation’s Lee Iacocca keynote Gallery presented the landmark exhibition Enrollment in Japanese language classes speaker at the Annual Dinner. Court and Samurai in an Age of Transition: reached 2,200 . Medieval Paintings and Blades from the Gotoh Ensemble of fourteen Japanese and Asian- Gallery marked fifty-one exhibitions held Museum, Tokyo . American drummers convened for the fifth since the Society’s building opened in 1971 . anniversary concert of Soh Daiko. Ohira Memorial Lecture , named for the late Society completed $10 million Capital Fund prime minister of Japan, Kazuto Ohira, fea - During 1985 –86 , the Society presented five Drive. tured former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. study-tours, including two in Japan. In its twelfth year, the Business Fellowships Distinguished Lecturer Series included talks by Society launched the Executive Orientation in Japan exchange program sent eight first- renowned kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke III on Japan program. year business school students to Japan and former U.S. Defense Secretary James Inspired by Oliver Statler’s book, The for six-week internships with Japanese cor - Schlesinger. Japanese Pilgrimage , twenty-one members porations. Enrollment in language classes exceeded participated in “In the Steps of Kobo Daishi: Eighth annual Japan Caravan brought three 2,500 students. Japan Society’s Pilgrimage to Shikoku,” Japanese professionals from academia, busi - walking 135 miles and visiting twenty-three ness, and the media for a two-week speaking temples under Statler’s leadership. tour throughout the U.S.

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 105 1991 1993 we have sustained the quality of Leadership Fellows sent to Japan while learning how Generous gift of $1.25 million from the Toyota Performing Arts inaugurated the Jazz from to keep them effectively engaged with Japan Motor Corporation allowed Japan Society to Japan series, showcasing Japan’s foremost after they return.” include a Japanese language center in the jazz artists in collaboration with outstanding first phase of its building expansion program. American musicians. Work also included the creation of C.V. Starr 1995 Fully renovated auditorium reopened, equip- Library and renovation of the auditorium and ped with new 35 mm and 16 mm projectors Immediately after the Great Hanshin fourth floor offices. (Toyota Language Center and a state-of-the-art Dolby sound system. Earthquake on January 17 , relief fund estab - and C.V. Starr Library formally opened on lished; $70,000 raised. December 11 , 1992 .) Fourth annual MacEachron Policy Forum brought together policy experts from all Ambassador William Clark, Jr. selected to Almost 100,000 visitors attended the Gallery’s over the world for a two-day private discus - replace outgoing Japan Society president The Rise of a Great Tradition: Japanese Archaeo- sion, “Redefining the U.S.-Japan Security William H. Gleysteen, Jr. logical Ceramics from the Jomon through Heian Relationship.” Periods ( 10,500 b.c. –a.d. 1185 ). Society conducted its first successful major Young Executive Program launched. program held in Japan, the fifth MacEachron Film Center completed the third module Policy Forum , examining Asia’s impact on of its educational video project, Japanese 1992 –93 Corporate Luncheon Program U.S.-Japan ties. Society Through Film . attracted more than 1,100 participants to seventeen discussion meetings featuring Arrangements completed to begin the New Teacher Training Program provided U.S. Treasury Under Secretary Lawrence second half of the Society’s $10.5 million native Japanese speakers with the tech - Summers and Takeshi Nagano, president, building expansion: expanded Gallery space niques necessary to teach Japanese to Nikkeiren and chairman, Mitsubishi and meeting rooms on the second floor English speakers. Materials Corporation, among others. and an additional fifth floor of office space, U.S. debut of Suzuki Company of Toga to be finished in 1997 , in time for the Seventeenth annual Business Fellowships in (SCOT), Artistic Director Tadashi Suzuki, Society’s ninetieth anniversary. Japan program sent seven American MBA with Dionysus at Lincoln Center, through students to Japan. Director Nagisa Oshima introduced his Performing Arts Program. seminal film, The Ceremony , and was himself introduced by director Martin Scorsese. 1994 1992 First group of New York high school teachers Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Michael I. Sovern became chairman of visited Japan in the summer as part of the Japan visited Japan Society. Japan Society. newly established Educators’ Forum on Japan . Educational Outreach Department established. Phase One renovation and expansion of More than 1,000 people attended the Society building completed. Special invitational forums included round - Society’s Annual Dinner, featuring keynote table discussions with Walter Mondale, speaker Secretary of Defense William J. Perry. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and U.S. Ambassador to Japan; Masahisa Naito, Princess Takamado toured the Society during former director-general, Industrial Policy their visit to New York. 1996 Bureau of MITI; and U.S. Trade Representa- Okinawan Traditional Dance and Music com - tive Mickey Kantor. After nine successful cycles, the U.S.-Japan memorated the twentieth anniversary of the Leadership Program evolved into two separate Society president William H. Gleysteen, Jr. reversion of Okinawa to Japan. fellowships: the U.S.-Japan Media Fellows wrote in the 1993 –94 annual report, “In recent Program and the Local Government and Japanese Folk Art: A Triumph of Simplicity , years we have also undergone some shifts Public Policy Fellowship. the second exhibition in a three-part series of emphasis. We have tackled controversy dedicated to exploring the arts and culture more directly, particularly on trade issues Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, chairman of Keidanren of nineteenth-century Japan, heralded by and the character of Japanese development. and chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation, The New York Times as “the most ambitious We have extended our agenda by embracing guest of honor and keynote speaker at the such show in New York.” new issues, such as the role of women, Society’s Annual Dinner. aging, and health care. In the performing Film Center presented Changing Japan: New Two-year project, Changing Context of U.S.- arts, we have introduced a successful new Ways in a Traditional Society , a series of thirteen Japan Relations , launched. mix of the traditional-versus-contemporary films on the social and cultural changes taking and the popular-versus-specialized. We are U.S.-Japan Women’s Leadership on the place in contemporary Japan, in association doing more nationally to exploit the outreach Environment invited ten Japanese community with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. potential of New York programs, and we activists to the U.S. to meet with their are beginning a new effort with high school American counterparts. teachers in New York. For the long haul,

106 Twenty-four individual lectures and five lec - James D. Wolfensohn, president of the Society’s Corporate Program hosted a major ture series presented; distinguished lecturers World Bank, gave the keynote address at conference, Venture Capital & the Internet in included Yotaro Kobayashi, chairman and the Annual Dinner. Japan , bringing together leading venture cap - CEO, Fuji Xerox Corporation, and former U.S. italists, incubators, and technology experts Passport to Japan student exchange program Ambassador to Japan Michael Armacost. to explore the environment for Internet- inaugurated by Educational Outreach. related venture capital in Japan. Dancer-choreographers Eiko & Koma pre - Second annual U.S.-Japan Media Dialogue sented Autumn Passage , a four-part program Initial advisory meeting for The Silver Market: held in Gotemba, Japan; seventeen Japanese marking the twentieth anniversary of their New Opportunities in a Graying Japan and and American journalists came together for American debut at the Society United States , a two-year project focusing a three-day symposium held in collaboration on the aging populations of both countries Butoh legend Kazuo Ohno celebrated his with I-House. (a book on the Silver Market program was ninetieth birthday at the Society with four First Japanese History Day competition for published by the Society in both English and performances of My Mother . students held, on the theme of “Everyday Japanese editions in 2001 ). Life in Meiji Japan.” 1997 “Pokémon Mania,” a family program with Gallery exhibition Shiko Munakata: The screenings and a toy giveaway, drew the Japan Society celebrated its ninetieth Modern Master of Woodblock Art showcased greatest crowd of children and accompany - anniversary. the Society’s own collection of works by the ing adults to the Society to date. artist, among others. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Takamado attended a special reception in Architect I. M. Pei lectured on the Miho 2000 honor of the Society’s ninetieth anniversary, Museum Project as part of the Inside the Society president William Clark, Jr. wrote and in celebration of the completion of its Studio series. in the 1999 –2000 annual report that “Much building expansion and renovation. Youki-za, the oldest marionette theater com - of our programming continues to focus on Gallery’s ninetieth anniversary exhibition, pany in Japan, made its American debut at changes in the societies of Japan and the organized with the Agency for Cultural the Society as part of the 1998 International United States and how these changes will Affairs of Japan, was Enlightenment Embodied: Festival of Puppet Theater. affect the bilateral relationship ... ” The Art of the Japanese Buddhist Sculptor . 2000 Japan Society Award honored Dr. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto addressed 1999 Shoichiro Toyoda, honorary chairman and an invited audience of about 100 . director of Toyota Motor Corporation. Theater Company Rinko-gun’s production of Kamishibai workshop and performance held Capital of the Kingdom of Gods , based on the Akio Morita ( 1921 –99 ), founder and former for about seventy-five children and their life of Lafacio Hearn, had its U.S. premiere at chairman of Sony Corporation, and 1995 parents, along with a group of elementary the Society, subsequently touring to Florida, Japan Society Award recipient, commemo - school teachers. Cincinnati, and New Orleans. (This produc - rated at “Reflections on Akio Morita and the tion inaugurated the Japanese Theatre NOW U.S.-Japan Relationship,” with remarks by Japanese Theater in the World , the first large- series, dedicated to presenting Japanese Peter G. Peterson, David Rockefeller, Henry scale exhibition following the Gallery’s 1997 contemporary theater to U.S. audiences.) A. Kissinger, Katherine Graham, Paul A. renovation, also became the theme for a Volcker, Nobuyuki Idei, and Isaac Stern. season of programming Society-wide. Film Center presented four major series, two special screenings, and four members-only Major conference, Globalization & the Future First Japan Society Matsuri on 47 th Street premieres in 1998 –99 , and arranged for many of Japanese Banking: How Reform, Consolida- attended by 3,000 to 4,000 fairgoers. of the works in the series Anime: The History tion & Foreign Competition are Transforming Dragon Bond Rite brought together fourteen of Japanese Animated Films to be screened at Japanese Banking , co-sponsored with the virtuoso artists from Japan, Korea, Indonesia, other venues throughout the U.S. Columbia University Center on Japanese India, and Tuva in a masked dance-drama Economy and Business. Roundtable discussion held in Tokyo with celebrating Asian traditions. Donna Shalala, 1987 U.S.-Japan Leadership Double-bill of the fifteenth-century noh play Program Fellow (and U.S. Secretary of Health Taniko (The Valley Rite ) and Kurt Weill’s 1998 and Human Services) and leading Japanese opera Der Jasager (The Consenter ) presented women from business, the arts, media, and at the Society as part of the Kurt Weill Japan Advisory Committee formed to pro - non-governmental organizations. Festival 2000 . vide advice from the Japanese perspective on program content, participants, and support. Civil Society: Japanese Experiment and Performance by Continuum celebrated com - American Experience , a study mission report poser Ushio Torikai’s fifteen years in New Japan Society hosted a reception at the Hotel on a multi-year Society project, published. York, including the world premiere of FUSE VII , Okura in Tokyo for 200 friends and supporters. commissioned by the Society.

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 107 Katsuyuki Motohiro’s Bayside Shakedown , Educators’ Forum on Japan 2001 sent eleven Japan-United States Homeless Service Providers the highest grossing Japanese movie of 1998 , NYC high school and middle school educa - Exchange (a ten-day exchange program bring- received its U.S. premiere at the Society. tors to Japan on a three-week study tour. ing Japanese homeless providers to New York in 2001 ) culminated in a ten-day program Educators’ Forum on Japan 2000 took twelve Two thousand haiku submitted to Poetic bringing Rosanne Haggerty of Common high school and middle school teachers to Possibilities , the Society’s student haiku contest. Ground to Tokyo and Osaka to follow up Japan for a three-week study tour. Manhattan Center for Science and with Japanese homeless service providers. Matsuri on 47 th Street held for the fourth Mathematics and Heritage School selected Howard Baker, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, year in a row, including taiko drumming and as the first schools to take part in a two-year Shunji Yanai, former Ambassador of Japan to a Mikoshi Shrine procession. Educational Outreach program, Japanese the U.S., Thomas S. Foley, former U.S. Ambas- Language in the Schools . Japan Society organized Y E S Yoko Ono , a sador to Japan, and Yoshio Okawara, former retrospective of visual art produced by the Corporate Program and Citigroup hosted Ambassador of Japan to the U.S. spoke at legendary Yoko Ono; after its Japan Society The Global Economy: Policy Challenges Facing the U.S.-Japan Ambassadorial Forum in showing, the exhibition traveled throughout the United States & Japan with Robert E. Tokyo on “U.S.-Japan Relations Post- 9/11 .” North America, Korea, and Japan through Rubin, a director, chairman of the Executive “Ambassadors’ Roundtable,” moderated by 2005 , and received a Best Museum Show Committee and member of the office of the David E. Sanger of The New York Times , offered Award from the International Association chairman of Citigroup Inc., and former U.S. New York audience an opportunity to hear of Art Critics. The exhibition drew the high - Treasury Secretary. Thomas S. Foley, former Ambassador to est Gallery attendance record to date and Society held its first Global Wireless & Japan, Yoshio Okawara, former Ambassador was proclaimed a “cultural happening and Internet Summit , featuring senior executives to the U.S., and Ryozo Kato, Ambassador of historic landmark” by The Wall Street Journal . from Softbank, AOL, KDDI, Ericsson, NTT Japan to the U.S. Eight American elected officials and non - DoCoMo, Monex, France Telecom, and others. Society hosted a dinner meeting of World profit leaders spent twelve days meeting Language Center enrollment reached a new Economic Forum participants dedicated to with their Japanese counterparts during the high through exposure on the Internet. addressing the changes Japan experienced U.S.-Japan Exchange on Women in Public Policy . in the recent past and on what needed to be Society produced a five-city American tour Japan Society, Asia Society, China Institute, done to address current and foreseeable for director Tadashi Suzuki and his company, and the Kikkoman Institute for International challenges. featuring new productions of Electra , Oedipus Food Culture collaborated on Rice in Asia: Rex , and Dionysus . The Grain that Shapes Cultures , a one-day 2003 symposium held at the Society. Major film series, Critic’s Choice: Donald Richie on Japanese Film , presented eight out - Frank L. Ellsworth appointed president of Two-day conference held in Tokyo: Terrorism: standing Japanese films originally selected Japan Society. Prevention & Preparedness—New Approaches by Richie for the 2000 Nantes Film Festival. to U.S.-Japan Security Cooperation (a book Bridging Change in Asia: New York Looks to reporting on the conference was published Korea and Japan , a three-month, Society- by the Society in 2001 ). 2002 wide programming initiative, co-organized by Japan Society and the Korea Society. Invitational reception held at Japan Society 2001 in honor of Junichiro Koizumi, Prime Minister Gallery exhibition, Transmitting the Forms of of Japan. Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and 2001 Annual Dinner contributions set a new Japan, 6th through 9th Centuries , organized record, surpassing $1 million. Living National Treasure Ganjiro Nakamua III in collaboration with the governments of made his New York debut at the Society in William J. McDonough, president, Federal Japan and Korea, named by Holland Cotter the kabuki dance classic Fuji Musume . Reserve Bank of New York, gave the keynote of The New York Times as the best art exhibi - address at the corporate conference New Japan Society website launched, making tion of 2003 . Globalization & the Future of Banking in the online ticketing sales possible for the first time. Former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry U.S. & Japan . Paul H. O’Neill, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury gave a major talk on North Korea’s nuclear Gallery exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright and the and Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Member, House of ambitions. Art of Japan: The Architect’s Other Passion Representatives, Japan, both delivered key- New York State Attorney General Eliot addressed the profound impact Japan had on note speeches at the corporate conference Spitzer spoke at the Corporate Program Wright’s artistic and intellectual life; Wright Can Japan’s Ailing Banking System Be Cured? on policing financial markets. was a member of Japan Society from 1907 through 1911 .

108 Society hosted a major roundtable conference Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean of the Kennedy Gallery exhibition Little Boy: The Arts of and public symposium in Tokyo, Redefining School of Government at Harvard University, Japan’s Exploding Subculture , curated by artist Japan & the U.S.-Japan Alliance , bringing lectured on his book, Soft Power: The Means Takashi Murakami and held in collaboration together thirty leading policymakers, entre - to Success in World Politics . with the Public Art Fund, won the award for preneurs, journalists, academics, and political Best Thematic Museum Show in New York Former Japan Society Media Fellow Douglas and economic analysts from Japan, China, City by AICA (The International Association McGray participated in public symposia in South Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and the of Art Critics, U.S. Chapter) and was also Osaka and Tokyo called COOL Japan: Japan’s U.S., to discuss the future of Japan and the named Best Museum Show in New York by Cultural Power . U.S.-Japan relationship in a global context. the International Association of Art Critics. The New Yorker wrote that the Gallery exhi - Society’s new Commissioning Project pre - Arts and culture programming initiative Cool bition Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese sented the world premiere of At Suma Beach Japan: Otaku Strikes! brought a flood of new, Ceramics offered “ ... some of the most com - by composer Lee Hyla, performed by The young members to the Society. pelling ceramic sculptures of the twentieth Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. century.” IMAJINÉ 2005 , an Arts & Culture gala Yeongsanjae Ritual , designated an Important benefit, honored Robert Wilson, Yoko Ono, Series of public symposia held in New York, Intangible Cultural Property by the Korean and Takashi Murakami for their achieve - Washington, D.C., and Palo Alto on the government, performed by eighteen monks ments in the arts. future of Japan and the U.S.-Japan alliance. from Bongweonsa Temple in Seoul as part of Bank of Japan Governor Toshihiko Fukui pre - “Buddhist Ritual Chant from Korea & Japan.” Atsushi Saito, president of the Industrial sented a major speech at the Society on the Revitalization Corporation of Japan, addressed Multimedia artist Nam June Paik and video occasion of the bank’s 100 th anniversary of a corporate audience on the outlook for cor - artist Shigeko Kubota gave a joint lecture as its New York office. porate restructuring in Japan. part of the Inside the Studio series. Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machi- William S. Cohen, chairman and CEO of the Critic’s Choice: Susan Sontag on Japanese Film mura addressed a private luncheon sponsored Cohen Group and 20 th Secretary of Defense, presented Sontag’s personal selection of by the Society at the Waldorf Astoria. gave a speech exploring security challenges eight classic Japanese films made between facing Japan and the U.S. First phase of U.S.-Japan Innovators Project 1936 and 1987 . began with two exchanges between Education Program launched Journey Through Y E S Yoko Ono became the first Japan American and Japanese innovators from Japan website for educators. Society exhibition to travel to Asia. business, civil society, and arts and culture. Critic’s Choice: Susan Sontag on Japanese Film, Ten-part film series, The History of Japanese 2005 Bessie Award and the New York Part II , presented a selection of ten Japanese Horror Films , traced highly influential works Innovative Theatre Award given to Basil films made between 1926 and 1985 . In a made from 1949 to 2001 . Twist’s Dogugaeshi (the world premiere of New Yorker article on Sontag’s life in film, this Japan-Society-commissioned work was film critic David Denby wrote, “Sontag, it presented at the Society in November 2004 2004 turned out, had a personal canon of about and returned again in September 2007 as 400 movies that she visited over and over Sir Deryck Maughan selected as chairman of part of the Society’s centennial celebration). at revival houses—Renoir’s Rules of the Game Japan Society. and Kurosawa’s High and Low were particular Society produced a six-city U.S. tour for Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO of Nissan favorites, and she claimed to have seen Ozu’s The First Noh & Kyogen Program Witnessed Motor Company, Ltd., keynote speaker and heartbreaking Tokyo Story 30 times. ‘There by Americans , performed by members of guest of honor at the Society’s Annual are passions which last forever,’ she told an Nohgaku Kyokai, and a four-city U.S. tour of Dinner; Fumihiko Maki received the Japan audience of movie-lovers at the Japan Society Rinko-gun Theater Company’s Yaneura (Attic ). Society Award for his outstanding work in in 2003 . At the end of her life, working hard, The Museum of Arts & Design and the the service of architecture and humanity. often ill, Susan Sontag went to the movies Society co-organized a three-day symposium, almost every day of the week.” Redefining Japan & the U.S.-Japan Alliance , New Design Japan: Cool Idea & Hot Products . a series of public fora, presented in Tokyo, In 2004 –05 , 990 students visited the Gallery New York, Washington, D.C., and Palo Alto. 2005 for interactive tours. Fiftieth anniversary of the Performing Arts James S. McDonald became chairman of Program celebrated in a spring gala, Noh & Japan Society. 2006 Kyogen: Masters of Performance , featuring three Living National Treasures. Richard J. Wood appointed president of Japan Society.

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 109 Society and Keio University’s Institute for INSIDE COVER inside back cover (images by row, left to right) Digital Media and Content (DMC) signed a PHOTOGRAPHY first row: Reception following kyogen performance at the memorandum of understanding to collabo - CREDITS United Nations, 2004 , photo © Christy Jones; Shiko Munakata in New York, 1967 , photo © Laura Beaujon; global leadership rate over DMC’s digital network. panel, 2005 , photo © Ken Levinson; Mansaku Nomura in inside front cover (images by row, left to right) Bo-Shibari , 1984 ; Shirley Temple Black with Her Imperial Japan’s Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki Highness Princess Hitachi, 1971 , photo © Thomas Haar. first row: Isamu Noguchi, 1948 , courtesy of The Noguchi spoke at the Society on the challenges of Museum; The Development of Japan by Kenneth Scott second row: Program for a dinner in honor of Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Takamatsu, 1931 ; Japan’s economic recovery. Latourette, 1918 , photo © Ken Levinson; Takashi Murakami at the Little Boy exhibition, 2005 , photo © Satoru Ishikawa; kamishibai family program, 2006 , photo © George Hirose; Ugetsu at the Plaza Theater, 1954 ; Annual Dinner, 2006 , New Year’s celebration, 2005 , photo © Christy Jones; pro - J. Thomas Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to photo © George Hirose. gram for Gagaku: The Musicians and Dancers of the Japanese Imperial Household , 1959 ; Matsuri on 47 th Street, 1999 , Japan, addressed a Corporate Program audi - second row: “Pokémon Mania,” 1999 , photo © William photo © Randy Waterman. ence on the evolving U.S.-Japan alliance. Irwin; Matsuri on 47 th Street, 1999 , photo © Japan Society staff; Koichi Saito, Donald Keene, and Mrs. Isaac Shapiro, third row: Hiromitsu Agatsuma, 2006 , photo © William 1974 , photo © Thomas Haar; The Earth Spider , 2004 , photo Irwin; place settings at a private dinner, 2005 , photo © Conference, Asia’s Shifting Balance of Power: © William Irwin; program for dinner in honor of His Imperial Christy Jones; Rimpa exhibition, 1971 , photo O. E. Nelson; China’s Impact on Japan’s Economic Future , Highness Crown Prince Akihito, 1953 . Japan Society garden, 1971 , photo © Thomas Haar; Takuya Muramatsu at a student butoh workshop, 2006 , photo © third row: Presentation of “Tokonoma Ceiling” for Asia featured former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Kazuko Minamoto. House, 1959 ; Japan Society Gallery, mid- 1970 s, photo © State Richard Armitage. O. E. Nelson; Admiral Count Heihachiro Togo, 1911 ; Akira fourth row: Dinner at Imperial Hotel honoring Lindsay Kurosawa with Dick Cavett, 1981 , photo © Osamu Honda/ Russell, Tokyo Graffic , 1911 ; student workshop with members of the Nohgaku Kyokai, 2005 , photo © Joe Pineiro; guests at Society held its first Innovators retreat, Japan Society; Shomyo and Bugaku Ho-e: Buddhist Ritual Chants , 1997 , photo © William Irwin. IMAGINÉ 2005 , photo © Satoru Ishikawa; press conference with Sadakau Tanigaki, 2006 , photo © Ken Levinson; Y E S “(IN)Spire: Connecting Communities,” fourth row: Robert Wilson and Yoko Ono at IMAGINÉ Yoko Ono exhibition, 2000 , photo © Sheldan Collins. in San Francisco, bringing together thirty 2005 , photo © Satoru Ishikawa; Little Boy opening reception, 2005 , photo © Satoru Ishikawa; shodo class, 2005 , photo © fifth row: Matsuri on 47 th Street, 1999 , photo © Randy American and Japanese leaders from Roy Mittelman; Japan House architectural model, 1969–70 ; Waterman; “Experience the Way of Tea,” 2004 , photo © business, civil society, and arts and culture Isaac Shapiro at Annual Dinner, 1971 , photo © Larry Norwalk. Masahiro Noguchi; program for Grand Kabuki, 1960 ; America to Japan , edited by Lindsay Russell, 1914 , photo © Ken fifth row: Shiko Munakata’s Mandarin Duck (Eno); from the U.S.-Japan Innovators Project . Levinson; architectural drawing for Japan House, 1969–70 . Living National Treasure Nakmura Kanzaburo XVII as Kumagai Naozane, 1982 , photo © Thomas Haar; Mick sixth row: Wingspread Conference , Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.-Japan Innovators Project micro-site Jagger and John Wheeler, 1984 , photo © William Irwin; 1972 , photo © Pedro Guerrero; cover of Seventh Shimoda launched. lobby with Rosanjin exhibition, 1972 , photo © O. E. Nelson; Conference report, 1987 ; Japan House, 1971 , photo © Tadashi Donald Keene with Kobo Abe, 1978 , photo © Thomas Haar. Endo; Art Cart: Chanoyu , 2007 , photo © Victoria Moller; Miyako Itchu: Traditional Shamisen Ensemble, 2005 , photo sixth row: Educators at “An Introduction to Japanese © William Irwin. Culture,” 2004 , photo © Kazuko Minamoto; America to Japan , edited by Lindsay Russell, 1915 ; Living National Treasure seventh row: Program for dinner in honor of Their Ganjiro Nakamura III in Fuji Musume , 2004 , photo courtesy Excellencies Viscount and Viscountess Sutemi Chinda, 1912 ; of the artist; cherry blossoms in New York City, 2006 ; stu - reception for Their Majesties the Empress and Emperor of dent kabuki workshop, 2002 , photo © Kazuko Minamoto. Japan, 1975 , photo © Thomas Haar; cover of booklet about Bando Tamasaburo V’s kabuki dance performances in the seventh row: Transmitting the Forms of Divinity , 2003 , U.S., 1984 ; Art Cart: Sumi-e , 2007 , photo © Victoria Moller; photo © Sheldan Collins; Little Boy opening reception, 2005 , installation of The Ledoux Heritage , 1973 , photo © O. E. Nelson. photo © Satoru Ishikawa; building banners, 2006 , photo © Ken Levinson; corporate luncheon, 2005 , photo © Ken eighth row: Eliot Spitzer, 2003 , photo © Ken Levinson; Levinson; Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida with John D. Hitachi at Rimpa , 1971 , photo © Thomas Haar. Rockefeller 3rd at Asia House, early 1960 s; Dragon Bond Rite , 1997 , photo © William Irwin; U.S-Japan Parliamentary eighth row: Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen Company in Exchange, 1983 ; Barbara Walters with Their Imperial The Monkey Skin Quiver , 2003 , photo © William Irwin; The Highnesses Prince and Princess Hitachi, 1971 , photo © Japanese Nation by Inazo Nitobe, 1912 , photo © Ken Levinson; Thomas Haar. Hiromi at the Annual Dinner, 2006 , photo © George Hirose; New Year’s celebration, 2005 , photo © Christy Jones; Little ninth row: Opening week at Japan House, 1971 , photo © Boy , 2005 , photo © Sheldan Collins. Thomas Haar; His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akihito with Cyrus Vance in Tokyo, 1985 ; program for a dinner in ninth row: Building detail, 2006 , photo © Ken Levinson; honor of Ambassador and Baroness Uchida, 1910 ; Kenzaburo Merce Cunningham, John Cage, and Porter McCray, 1978 , Oe, 1995 , photo © William Irwin; tea ceremony family pro - photo © Greg Cranna; program for garden party given by gram, 2006 , photo © Victoria Moller. Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, 1920 ; dinner in honor of His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akihito, 1953 ; Japan tenth row: Francis Ford Coppola, 1984 , photo © William Society interior, 1998 , photo © Norman McGrath. Irwin; Ushio Shinohara, 2003 , photo © Julie Lemberger; Grand Sumo Tournament poster, 1985 ; Evan D’Angeles and tenth row: Little Boy , 2005 , photo © Sheldan Collins; Amon Miyamoto, 2004 , photo © Leah Wiste; Billy Taylor, program for A Festival of Japanese Theatre , 1953 ; Frank Lloyd Carol Vaness, His Imperial Highness Crown Prince Akihito, Wright outside the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, 1922 , photo © Aprile Millo, Her Imperial Highness Princess Michiko, Cyrus Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Vance, and Ron Richardson, 1987 , photo © Osamu AR; language instructor Tomoyo Kamimura, 2005 , photo Honda/Japan Society. © Roy Mittelman; Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company, 1973 , photo © Thomas Haar. Every effort has been made to locate the photographers whose work appears in this book. For further information, please write to Publications Dept., Japan Society, 333 East 47 th Street, New York, NY 10017 .

110 INDEX International Peace, 20 , 21 Federation of Economic Hay, John, 10 Japan Society Fellowships, 54 Carter, Edward C., 30 Organizations (Keidanren), 62 , Heald, Henry, 40 Japan Society Gallery. See Japan 66 , 92 Note: Page numbers in italics Carter, Jimmy, 68 , 85 , 86 Heilbrun, Jacob, 86 House Gallery indicate photographs. Castile, Rand, 72 , 74 , 78 , 80 Finkelstein, Louis, 40 Henderson, Harold G., 30 , 33 , 34 , Japan Society Newsletter , 66 , 80 Chiyonofuji, 78 Finley, John H., 12 , 15 35 , 45 Japan Society of Boston, 20 , 52 Abe, Kobo, 70 Clark, William, 91 –92 , 93 , 95 Fish, Robert, 95 Henry Luce Foundation, 81 Japan Society of New Orleans, 52 Abe, Shintaro, 81 Clavell, James, 77 Five Power Naval Treaty ( 1922 ), 23 Herod, W. R., 35 Japan Society of Oregon, 52 Aichi, Kiichi, 62 , 63 Clews, Henry, 20 Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw, 22 Hino, Terumasa, 89 Japan Society of San Francisco, 52 Akashi, Yasushi, 79 Coe, Kersey, 33 Foley, Thomas S., 81 , 82 Hirano, Kyoko, 89 Japan Society Trade Bulletin , 21 , 26 Akihito, Crown Prince, 39 , 39 , 40 , Coffin, C. A., 17 Ford Foundation, 38 , 42 , 54 , 81 Hiroba , 79 Japan Today , 70 , 71 52 , 52 , 73 , 80 Cole, Charles W., 50 Ford, George B., 50 Hirohito, Crown Prince, 26 Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Akihito, Emperor, 91 , 91 Conable, Barbara, 81 Four Power Pact ( 1922 ), 23 Hirohito, Emperor, 24 , 33 , 66 , 69 , Group (Wise Men’s Group), 68 , 75 Aldrich, Winthrop, 35 Conference on Cultural and Fowler, Henry H., 82 69 Japan-U.S. Friendship Act ( 1975 ), Allen, Charles E., 57 Educational Interchange Frazar, E. W., 30 Hiroshima Doctors Group, 42 70 Allison, John, 46 (CULCON), 60 , 67 , 67 , 70 , 75 Freeman Foundation, 89 Hitachi, Prince and Princess, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, 70 , 75 , 82 , 84 Alter, Jonathan, 82 Coolidge, Calvin, 22 Frenzel, Bill, 81 66 , 66 Japanese-American Women’s America-Japan Society, 20 Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 61 Friends of the Japan House Hoagland, Jim, 86 Club, 49 American Council of Young Council on International Gallery, 72 Hodgson, James D., 68 , 72 , 74 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Political Leaders, 75 Educational Exchange (CIEE), 54 Fujii, Kiyoko, 87 Holman, Eugene, 46 of New York, 52 , 69 Aneha, J., 27 Courtis, Kenneth, 86 Fujinkai, Nichibei, 49 Holt, Hamilton, 14 , 15 , 16 , 19–20 , 22 Japanese Consulate General Cousins, Norman, 50 Fujiwara Opera Company, 40 Homma, Fusataka, 73–74 Anesaki, Masaharu, 29 (New York), 54 “crisis of 1960 ”, 51 Fujiyama, Aiichiro, 46 Horton, Mrs. Douglas, 35 Aoki, Viscount Shuzo, 12 , 14 , 16 Japanese Language Program Arai, Mrs. Yoneo, 50 CULCON, 60 , 67 , 67 , 70 , 75 Fukai, Eigo, 28 House, Karen Eliot, 86 (JLP), 79 , 88–89 Arai, Ryoichiro, 14 , 15 Curtis, Gerald, 86 Fukuda, Tsuneari, 45 Hubert, Kendall, 95 Japanese Literary Society of Arai, Ryoichiro, 33 Fukui, Kikusaburo, 14 , 15 New York, 26 Arai, Yoneo, 35 , 36 , 41 , 49 , 50 , 55 Dahl, Gerald M., 24 Fukushima, Glen, 86 , 87 Ichikawa, Fusae, 50 JDR 3rd Fund, 54 Araki, Eikichi, 33 , 36 , 39 , 40 D’Arcy, Martin C., 50 Fulbright, William, 46 Ichinohe, Saeko, 74 Jigokumon , 44 , 45 Armacost, Michael, 84 David MacEachron Policy Forum , Funabashi, Yoichi, 86 Ichinomiya, Reitaro, 14 , 15 Jodai, Tani, 50 Armstrong, Rodney E., 60 , 68 85 Fushimi, Prince and Princess, 16 Idei, Nobuyuki, 92 Johnson, Alexis, 72 Asia House, 49 , 50 , 56 , 57 de Bary, Theodore, 46 Ienaga, Toyokichi, 17 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 Johnson, Chalmers, 87 Asia Society, 49 , 55 , 61 , 75 , 84 de Lima, E. S. A., 12 , 15 , 16 Gardner, John, 51 Igushi, Sadao, 46 Johnson Foundation, 61 Asiatic Society of Japan, 9 Dean, Arthur, 35 Garten, Jeffrey, 87 Ijuin, Goro, 12 Johnson, Phillip, 49 Associated Japan-America Debuchi, Katsuji, 28 Gentleman’s Agreement ( 1907 ), Ikeda, Hayato, 39 , 52 , 60 Johnson, U. Alexis, 36 Societies of the U.S., 72 , 75 , 92 DeNiro, Robert, 78 11 , 22 , 24 Imamura, Shohei, 73 Auchincloss, Edward H., 49 , 55 Dentzer, Susan, 87 Gerli, Paolino, 33 , 35 , 49 , 55 Ingersoll, Robert S., 67–68 , 71 , 74 , Kabayama, Count Aisuke, 47 Auchincloss, Lily, 68 Derham, Anthony, 78 Gibney, Frank, 40 75 , 79 , 80 , 80 , 81 Kaifu, Toshiki, 81 Auslin, Michael R., 7 Dewey, George, 12 Glenn, John, 81 Intellectual Interchange Program, Kamiya, Fuji, 81 50–51 , 67 , 86 Avitabile, Gunhilde, 78 , 90 Dewey, Mrs. George, 12 Gleysteen, William H., Jr., 80 , 85 , Kamura, Hiroshi, 75 88 , 88 , 91 , 91 International Film Foundation, 45 Dewey, Roberta, 47 Kaneko, Viscount, 27 Global Security Roundtable, International House of Japan, 43 , Bache, Harold L., 35 , 49 Dillon, Wilton, 42 Kanto earthquake and fire 93–94 48 , 50 , 69 , 75 , 94 Baker, Howard, 81 Distinguished Lecturer Series , 83 , 85 (1923 ), 23–24 , 25 Gookin, Frederick W., 17 , 18 , 19 Ishii, Kikujiro, 22 , 23 , 28 Bando, Tamasaburo V, 78 Doris Duke Charitable Kanzaburo, Nakamura XVII, 77 Gordon, Beate, 43 , 46–47 , 53 , Itami, Juzo, 90 Barzelay, Ross, 82 Foundation, 93 Kato, Koichi, 81 73 , 74 Ito, Kimiko, 89 Bellow, Saul, 51 , 67 Drucker, Peter, 74 Katsu, Shintaro, 90 Graham, Martha, 48 Iwakura Mission ( 1872 ), 25 Belmont, August., 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , Dulles, John Foster, 34 , 35 , 39 , Kawakita, Kashiko, 73 40–41 Grand Kabuki, 48 , 54 , 77–78 Iwashita, Shima, 90 17 , 20 Kawakita Memorial Film Grand Sumo Tournament, 78 , 79 Belting, Katharina, 93 Dulles Peace Settlement Institute, 73 Mission, 35 , 43 Grant, Fred D., 15 Beplat, Tristan E., 49 , 55 , 60 , 68 Japan America Society of Kawashima, Ruri, 74 , 82 , 86 , 93 Dunbar, Douglas, 21 , 30 , 33 Grew Foundation, 47 Chicago, Inc., 52 Betts, George, Jr., 30 , 33 , 42 Keene, Donald, 44 , 45 , 45 , 46 , Dutton, Samuel T., 20 Grew, Joseph C., 34 , 35 , 39 , Japan-America Society of Bing, Rudolf, 47 70 , 86 Dyke, Ken R., 35 , 43 47–48 Seattle, 52 Bliss, Cornelius N., 12 , 15 Kennedy, John F., 60 Griffis, William Eliot, 9, 26 Japan-America Society of Borden, Betty, 93 Kihara, Hitoshi, 50 Edelman, Marian Wright, 82 , 86 Grilli, Peter, 77–78 Southern California, 52 Borton, Hugh, 37 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , Kirk, Grayson, 40 , 50 Grossberg, Kenneth, 71 Japan-America Society of 44 , 45 , 49 Edelman, Peter, 82 Kirsten, Lincoln, 48 Gulf War ( 1990–91 ), 85 Washington, D.C., 52 , 71 Bosworth, Stephen, 86 Educational Outreach Program, 89 Japan-America Student Kishi, Nobusuke, 46 , 51 Educators Forum on Japan, 89 Bozorth, Squire N., 60 Conference, 41 Kissinger, Henry A., 61 , 62 , 86 Educators’ Study Tour, 89 , 94 Habibara, H. E. Masanao, 27 Braislin, Charles, 62 Japan and Korean Exclusion Kiza Troupe, 73 Halberstam, David, 86 Bramstedt, W. F., 49 Eijima, Mari, 7 League, 11 Knorr, Christine, 7 Hall, John, 68 Brownstein, Ronald, 82 Elizabeth II, Queen, 40 Japan Center for International Kobayashi, Kenji, 40 , 47 Hall, Nana Gaddis, 52 Bryan, Julien, 45 , 53 Elling, Phyllis, 46 Exchange (JCIE), 75 , 80 Kobayashi, Masanao, 24–25 Halperin, Mark, 86 Bryan, William Jennings, 21 Ellsworth, Frank, 93 , 95 Japan Film Center, 72–73 , 77 , 78 , Kodo, 78 Hamilton, Lee, 81 Bryant, William Cullen, II, 43 Endo, Shusaku, 51 90 , 93 , 94 Koike, Chozo, 14 , 15 Hammarskjold, Dag, 39 , 40 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 62 English Language Educational Japan Foundation, 84 , 90 , 93 , 94 Koizumi, Junichiro, 93–94 , 94 Council (ELEC), 43 , 51 Hanabusa, Masamichi, 86 Bunche, Ralph, 46 , 50 Japan House, 57 , 59 , 60 , 62–67 , Koizumi, Shinzo, 40 Eto, Jun, 51 , 66 Hanayagi, Suzushi, 47 , 74 , 75 63 , 64 , 65 , 68 , 70 , 72 , 73 , 77 Burke, Mrs. Jackson, 72 Kojun, Empress, 91 Eto, Kimio, 47 Harbord, James G., 27 Japan House Gallery, 66 , 69 , 72 , Butler, Nicholas Murray, 21 Komatsu, Takashi, 34 Exclusion Act ( 1924 ), 24 Harriman, E. H., 17 74 , 77 , 78 , 90–91 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 Korea Foundation, 93 Exclusion League, 22 Harriman, E. J., 12 Japan Interpreter, 75 C. V. Starr Foundation, 84 , 87 , 88 Korea Society, 93 , 94 Harris, Townsend, 9, 12 , 80–81 Japan Philharmonic, 54 C. V. Starr Library, 88 , 89 Korean War ( 1950–53 ), 54 Fallows, James, 82 , 86 Hasegawa, Nyozekan, 50 Japan Society Award, 79 Calder, Kent, 86 Kramer, Raymond C., 34–35 , 36 , Far East-America Council of Hatano, Yoshio, 86 Japan Society Bulletin , 19 , 21 , 22 , Carnegie Endowment for 40 , 49 Commerce and Industry, 52 23 , 26 , 27

Celebrating a Century 1907–2007 111 Kublin, Hyman, 46 Murai, Yasukata, 15 Redmond, Roland L., 35 , 40 Spellman, Francis, 39 , 40 U.S.-Japan Parliamentary Kubo, Eiko, 43 Murakami, Takashi, 94 Reischauer, Edwin O., 7, 35 , 79 Sperry, C. S., 16 Exchange Program, 81–82 , 82 Kuni, Prince and Princess, 16 Murphy, Cait, 86 Richie, Donald, 90 , 90 Starr, Frederick, 26 U.S.-Japan Program, 84 Kunisada, Utagawa, 90 Murphy, Robert, 46 , 52 Robinson, James D., III, 80 Statler, Oliver, 45 U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, 34 , Kuroki, Tamesada, 7, 12 , 13 Murphy, Thomas A., 62 Rockefeller, Blanchette, 56 Sternau, Cynthia, 7 51 , 61 Kurosawa, Akira, 61 , 66 , 73 , 77 , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 20 Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 82 Stevens, Charles R., 60 U.S.-Japan Women in the Environment, 87 79 , 90 Museum of Modern Art, Rockefeller, David, 70 Stewart, James L., 57 , 60 U.S.-Japan Women’s Leadership Kyo, Machiko, 44 , 45 New York, 48 , 54 Rockefeller Foundation, 49 Straus, Oscar, 12 Network, 87 Muskie, Edmund, 81 Rockefeller, John D., 3rd, 7, 35 , Strauss, Harold, 44 U.S.-Japan Young Political Langston, Eugene, 43 36 , 38 , 39 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 45 , Sugaga Sanshiro, 61 Leaders Exchange Program, 75 Lansing-Ishii Agreement, 22 , 23 Nagai, Michio, 51 46 , 46 , 48–49 , 50 , 53 , 56 , 57 , 59 , Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki, 18 , 29 Ushiba, Nobuhiko, 66 , 68 , 74 , 79 Lansing, Robert, 22 , 23 Nagako, Empress, 48 , 69 , 69 60 , 62 , 63 , 66 , 68 , 69 , 71 Sumitomo Fund for Policy Ushikubo, D. J. R., 19 Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 26 , 27 , Nagayo, Yoshiro, 50 Rogers, William P., 61 Research Studies, 67 29 , 43 Nakasone, Yasuhiro, 80 Romberg, Alan, 86 Sumitomo Group, 67 Vance, Cyrus, 80 , 81 , 84 , 85 , 88 Lawrence, Paula, 89 Nakayama, Ichiro, 50 Roosevelt, Eleanor, 40 , 40 , 50 Suzuki, Zenko, 62 Vanderlip, Frank H., 24 , 25 , 26 Ledoux, Jean, 35 , 49 , 50 , 55 National Educational Television Roosevelt, Theodore, 11 , 12 , 15 , 17 , 21 Vanderlip, Mrs., 25 , 26 Ledoux, Louis V., 18 , 26 , 30 , 33–34 and Radio Center, 53 Taft, Henry W., 24 , 25 , 27 , 30 Root, Elihu, 21 Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 40 Libby-Owens Glass, 24 National Endowment for the Takagi, Yasaka, 50–51 Rosanjin, Kitaoji, 46 Vogel, Ezra, 87 Lie, Trygve, 36 Arts, 71 , 80 Takahira, Kogo, 16 Rosenblum, Daniel, 91 , 93 , 95 Volcker, Paul, 86 Lila Acheson Wallace National Endowment for the Takamado, Prince and Princess, Voss, James, 57 , 60 , 62 Auditorium, 73 , 89 , 90 Humanities, 71 Roth, William V., Jr., 81 91 , 92 Vukov, Elaine, 89 Lila Acheson Wallace/Japan National Museum of Modern Rumsfeld, Donald, 81 Takamine, Hideko, 69 Art, Tokyo, 48 Society Fund, 89 Russell, Lindsay, 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 17 , Takamine, Jokichi, 14 , 15 , 17 New York City Ballet, 53 18 , 19–20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 30 Warburg, Felix A., 17 Lila Acheson Wallace-Reader’s Takamiyama, 78 Digest Endowment Fund, 90 New York Japan Society, 52 Russo-Japanese War Warner, Everett Frazar, 33 Takemitsu, Toru, 79 Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 40 , 39 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 50 (1904–1905 ), 10 Warner, Richard F., 30 , 33 Talbot, Margaret, 86 Loeb, Kuhn, 24 Nine Power Treaty ( 1922 ), 23 Washington Conference ( 1922 ), Tanaba, Mr. and Mrs., 50 Lord, Mrs. Oswald B., 39 Nippon Club, 14 , 69 Sadayo Kita Noh Company, 73 23 Tanaka, Akihiko, 86 Low, Seth, 12 , 15 Nitobe, Inazo, 18 , 20 Sagan, Carl, 83 , 86 Webb, Herschel, 45 , 45 Tanaka, Kakuei, 61 Nixon, Richard, 61 , 69 Saito, Hirosi, 27 Western Electric, 24 Tanaka, Mitsuo, 42 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 20 Nojima, Minoru, 73 Sansom, Sir George, 35 Wheeler, John, 71 , 78 , 80 , 84 , 95 Tani, Gensho, 92 MacArthur, Douglas, 33 , 40 , 52 Nye, Joseph, 86 Sassa, Reiko, 79 Whitman, Walt, 9 Tanizaki, Junichiro, 44 MacEachron, David, 68 , 71 , 77 , 80 Sato, Eisaku, 42 , 56 Wiley, Alexander, 46 Terayarna, Shuji, 73 MacNeil, Robert, 86–87 Oasis- kai , 42 Satoh, Masahiko, 89 Wills, Garry, 51 Tillich, Paul, 50 Manchurian Incident ( 1931 ), 23 , 28 O’Brien, Thomas J., 16 Sawada, Renzo, 39 , 47 Wilson, Robert, 94 Tison, Alexander, 14 , 17 , 24 Mansfield, Mike, 79 Obuchi, Keizo, 81 Scalapino, Robert, 86 Wilson, Woodrow, 21 Tobata, Seiichi, 50 Martin, Bishop, 40 Oda, Maria, 7 Schieffelin, William Jay, 12 Wise Men’s Group (Japan-U.S. Toho Gakuen String Orchestra, Schiff, Jacob, 12 , 14 , 15 , 17 , 20 Economic Relations Group), 68 , 75 Masaoka, Naoichi, 18 , 21 Oe, Kenzaburo, 86 , 87 53 , 54 Schiff, Mrs., 12 Woll, Matthew, 36 Matsumoto, Shigeharu, 50 , 79 Ogasawara, Sankuro, 40 Tokugawa, Prince Iesato, 16 Scott, Charles F., 62 Women’s Agenda for the ‘ 90 ’s, 87 Matsunaga, Nobuo, 86 Ogata, Sadako, 85 , 86 Tokyo String Quartet, 66 , 74 Scott, Kenneth, 18 Wood, Richard J., 7, 95 Maughan, Sir Deryck, 93 , 95 Ohira, Masayoshi, 62 , 68 , 86 Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, Woodford, Steward L., 15 McCook, John L., 15 Ohira Memorial Lecture , 85 , 86 Scott, Suzanne, 43 79 Worden, Eugene, 21 , 28 McDonald, James S., 95 Ohno, Kazuo, 89 Scranton, William W., 80 Townsend Harris Endowment McGinley, Lawrence, 40 Okakura, Kakuzo, 26 Seidensticker, Edward, 43–44 Fund, 25 , 26 , 43 World War I ( 1914–18 ), 21–23 McLean, Douglas, 35 Okita, Saburo, 74 , 81 Seki, Hiromoto, 86 Toynbee, Arnold, 50 World War II ( 1939–45 ), 28 , 29 , 30 , 33 McMillen, Edward, 20 Okuma, Marquis Shigenobu, 22 Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 72 , 75 , Toyoda, Shoichiro, 88 , 92 Meiji Restoration ( 1868 ), 9 Okura, Yasukata, 15 77 , 84 Toyota Language Center, 88 , 88–89 Yamada, Yoji, 90 Meloy, Daniel J., 60 , 62 , 64 Ono, Eijiro, 14 , 15 Shalala, Donna, 82 Transactions (Asiatic Society of Yamamoto, Baron Gombei, 17 Meridian House International, 71 Ono, Yoko, 91 , 91 , 92 , 94 Shapiro, Isaac, 55 , 60 , 68 Japan), 9 Yamamoto, Gombei, 15 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ooka, Makoto, 51 Shaw, Otho S., 56 Tribute to Toshiro Mifune, 78 , 78 Yamashita, Yosuke, 89 38–39 , 40 , 46 Oppenheimer, Robert, 51 Sheperd, Howard C., 35 , 49 Truman, Harry, 36 Yoshida, Hidekazu, 45 Metropolitan Opera House, 77–78 Oriental Review , 19 Shibaura Electric, 24 Tsuda College, 25 Yoshida, Shigeru, 39 , 46 , 46 , 52 Michel, Robert, 81 Outlook , 20 Shigemitsu, Mamoru, 46 Tsuda, Umeko, 25 Yoshida, Toshi, 40 Michiko, Empress, 91 , 91 Overby, Andrew N., 68 , 71 Shimamoto, George, 62 Tsunoda Project, 45 Yoshimura, Junzo, 7, 57 , 62 , 62 , Michiko, Princess, 52 , 52 , 80 Overton, Douglas, 35–36 , 38 , 41 , Shimizu, Akira, 73 Tsunoda, Ryusaku, 45 65–66 Mifune, Toshiro, 78 , 90 42 , 43 , 44 , 48–49 , 52 , 56 , 57 , 59 Shinoda, Masahiro, 90 Tsuru, Shigeto, 50 Young, Alice, 88 Miki, Takeo, 69 Ozaki, Yukio, 16 Shioji, Ichiro, 81 Twenty-One Demands, 21 Young, Edgar, 35 , 36 , 49 , 68 Mishima, Yukio, 44 Ozawa, Seiji, 53 Shioya, Yoko, 95 Yukawa, Hideki, 35 Mitani, Takanobu, 40 Ozu, Yasujiro, 77 Shirai, Kensaku, 81 Uchida, Baron Yasuya, 16 , 16 Mitsui, Mariko, 87 Showa, Emperor, 91 Uchida, Baroness, 16 Miura, Tamaki, 47 Patrick, Hugh, 86 Shultz, George, 81 Uemura, Kogoro, 66 Miyazawa, Kiichi, 62 , 81 Patterson, Torkel, 86 Sino-Japanese War ( 1894–95 ), 10 Uriu, Baron Sotokichi, 16 Mizoguchi, Kenji, 44 Pearson, Clifford, 86 Sixth Year of Meiji Society Uriu, Baroness, 16 Mochizuki, Tomie, 43 , 66 Percy, Charles, 81 (Meirokusha), 9 U.S.-Japan Foundation, 82 , 86 Morgan, J. P., 24 Perry, Matthew C., 9, 12 , 61 Skouras, Spyros F., 36 U.S.-Japan Innovators Project , 94–95 Morishita, Yoko, 73 Peterson, Peter G., 62 Smithsonian, 61 U.S.-Japan Journalist Morita, Akio, 81 , 81 Petree, Virginia, 72 Smithsonian Resident Associates Symposium, 86 Program, 71 Morse, Edward Sylvester, 9 Potofsky, Jacob, 36 U.S.-Japan Leadership Program, Soh Daiko, 78 Munakata, Shiko, 49–50 , 51 , 74 , 77 Potsdam Proclamation ( 1945 ), 33 82 , 86–87 , 93 Sontag, Susan, 90 Munroe, Alexandra, 90–91 , 93 , 94 Print Artists Program, 49–50 U.S.-Japan Media Dialogue , 86 Sovern, Michael I., 85 , 88 , 91 , 92 , 93 Munsterberg, Hugo, 15 , 45 Public Affairs Outreach Service, U.S.-Japan Media Fellows 82–83 Spanish-American War ( 1898 ), 10 Program, 86 , 93

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