DescriptionRobert M. Brown, the son of Samuel R. Brown, graduated from Rutgers in Spring of 1865 and by November traveled to Japan to take over his father's class of six students. Robert Brown became the third...
DescriptionImperial University, known at the time as Kaisei Gakkō (開成学校) (renamed The University of Tokyo in 1877), was established in 1873 as the first institution of higher learning under the...
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...
DescriptionMeiji Gakuin (明治学院) has its roots in the "Hepburn School" founded by James Curtis Hepburn in 1863 and the "Brown School" founded by Samuel Robbins Browns in 1873. It was brought to fruition in...
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....
DescriptionIn 1872, Martin N. Wyckoff, a Rutgers College alumnus, departed to Fukui, Japan to replace William E. Griffis as a teacher at the Fukui junior high school. After the expiration of his Fukui contract...
DescriptionMary Kidder left the United States in 1869 and became the first unmarried female missionary to settle in Japan. She was initially hired by the government as an English teacher; however, a year after...
DescriptionEugene C. Duryee, a New Jersey native, was born in Cherry Hill New Jersey in 1901 and graduated from Rutgers College in 1923. He continued his studies at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut 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...
DescriptionPortrait of James Curtis Hepburn. Hepburn was a missionary, physician, educator, and translator who was sent by the Presbyterian Church as a medical missionary to Yokohama in 1859. He is known for...
