DescriptionThe Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery was established in 1859 as a burial ground for foreigners who died in Japan. It is located in Yamate (山手; also known as "The Bluff"), overlooking the ocean....
DescriptionYamate (山手), referred to in English as "The Bluff," was the foreigner's residential area from the Bakumatsu to Taisho periods. Initially a foreign settlement for the diplomats, missionaries also...
DescriptionThe Kaigan Church (海岸教会) was the first Japanese Protestant Church founded in Japan in March of 1872. During the new year celebrations of 1872 a group of Japanese students witnessed a meeting...
DescriptionThe American Mission Home was founded in Yokohama in August 1871 by Mary Pruyn, Julia Crosby, and Louise Pierson as a home and school for mixed-raced children of Japanese women and foreign men. It...
DescriptionFerris Seminary was founded by Mary Kidder, the first unmarried female missionary to settle in Japan, in 1870. It served as an all girls school and is Japan's first higher learning school for women....
DescriptionSamuel R. Brown was one of the first three Reformed Church missionaries sent to Japan in 1859. first taught at the Yokohama Academy (Eigakusho, 英学所), a language school for customs officials and...
DescriptionThe oldest origin of Meiji Gakuin was a private English school started by Clara Maria Leete Hepburn, the wife of James C. Hepburn, in 1863. The school operated out of their home and sanatorium in...
