Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers and Japan Since the Late Nineteenth Century

Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Editorial Conventions and Abbreviations
Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Beginnings: “The Simple Fact of Our Being Friends”
Early Quaker Missionary Activity and Japan
Transpacific Quaker Denominationalism
The Japan Peace Society and the British and American Quakers Who Supported It
Partnerships: “More than the Courage to Despair”
The Faith Life of Nitobe Inazō
The Nitobes
Anna C. Hartshorne and Her Mission in Japan
“Toward Friendship with Japan”
Tides: “If You Can Stay, Do Stay”
Edith Forsythe Sharpless in Wartime Japan, 1939–1943
Esther Biddle Rhoads and Friends School in Tokyo
The Encounter with Non-Pastoral Quakerism
Occupations: “For Mutual Helpfulness”
Elizabeth Gray Vining
The Public Speeches of Elizabeth Gray Vining in Japan and the United States
Friends and the LARA Postwar Relief Efforts to Japan
Quaker Connections with Women’s Educational Leadership in Japan
Futures: Archives “Bearing Witness”
Philadelphia Quakers and Japan
Quakers and Japan: Archival and Manuscript Materials at Haverford College
A Brief History of American Friends Service Committee Work on Behalf of Japan and the Japanese People
Afterword
Glossary of Quaker Terms
Bibliography
Index
About the Editors