Welcome to Konnichiwa Philadelphia, a feature dedicated to
highlighting the relationship between Philadelphia and Japan in the modern day and in years gone by.
We'll also cover interesting societal and cultural content about Japan.
Check back every two weeks for a new article, and rediscover Philadelphia
from a Japanese perspective!
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
Between 1860 and 1920, immigrants from many countries arrived in the United States. Of these, 246,400, or .0086%, were from Japan. The 1920 cencus counted 11,010 Japanese, included their American-born children. The early Japanese immigrants came to study or start businesses trading with Japan.
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
History has many interesting tales to tell. One of them is the story of Robert Walker Irwin, the son William Wallace Irwin, of a one-time Pennsylvania representative to the US Congress, and Sophia Arabella Bache of Philadelphia, a fourth direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. But while his ancestor and the rest of his family made Philadelphia their capital, Robert W. traveled west to Hawai'i and Japan; he went to Yokohama in 1866 to open up a Pacific Mail Steamship service.
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
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the first Japanese dental practitioner in the
United States, Dr. Masatsune Ichinoi, was born in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1862. He crossed
the Pacific to pursue his higher education. After arriving in San Francisco,
Ichinoi was inspired by the work of local dentists, and he decided to study at
Philadelphia Dental College at the age of 27. In Philadelphia, he graduated with the top honors and became
an assistant lecturer. In 1891, Ichinoi
opened a private practice here in Philadelphia, becoming the first Japanese
dental practitioner in the United States.
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Monday, 13 November 2006 |
On a September afternoon in 1903, Joseph Elkinton stood on the platform of the Broad Street station in Philadelphia waiting for the train to come in, bringing the author Takeo Arishima. Arishima had come to the United States, among other reasons, to earn his master's degree at Haverford College, a Quaker institution outside of Philadelphia. He had roomed with Inazo Nitobe, Joseph Elkington's brother-in-law, while studying in Sapporo, and came to America due to Nitobe's influence.
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Monday, 06 November 2006 |
On January 1, 1891, an extraordinary wedding took place at the Friends Meeting House at Fourth and Arch Streets in Philadelphia. The next day's Philadelphia Inquirer reported on its front page with the headline: "Weds and Oriental Husband: Mary Patterson Elkinton, Quakeress, Marries Inazo Nitobe, Japanese -- A Young Woman's Sacrifice for Love's Sweet Sake." As the newspaper's wording implied, a cross-cultural, interracial marriage of this sort was rare at the time, the "sacrifice" involved Mary's determination to live with her husband in distant Japan.
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