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...
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...
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...
