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In 1867 Taro Kusakabe (1845-70), a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers College. Several years later, his former tutor and Rutgers alumnus William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) left for Japan to teach, first in Fukui and later in Tokyo. The year 2020 marked the 150th anniversary of two landmark events in the history of the Rutgers-Japan relationship: the untimely death of Kusakabe only months before his graduation and his friend Griffis’s departure to Japan. This conference is held to commemorate and celebrate the special friendship between Rutgers and Japan. It will illuminate the roles of students, teachers, and missionaries, particularly those from Rutgers and the Dutch Reformed Church, in the modernization of Japan in the late nineteenth century. It also aims to shed new light to the nature of early cultural contacts between the United States and Japan and the diverse perspectives through which the encounter was remembered and told. RU-meets-Japan_program

https://sites.rutgers.edu/rutgers-meets-japan/conference/

日時 Date & Time	2021年3月6日（土）午前9時-12時　※日本時間 March 5 (Fri), 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm EST [March 6 (Sat) 9:00 am – noon JAPAN time]
言語 Language	英語 English
参加方法 Application	事前登録制 https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcemprDkpH9BLzLgPlMtY8yDXdMZTdRy2   Open to Public/Registration Required Register at https://rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcemprDkpH9BLzLgPlMtY8yDXdMZTdRy2
歓迎の辞 Welcome Remarks	Prof. Matt Matsuda, Academic Dean of the Honors College, Rutgers University
開会の辞 Opening Remarks	Mr. Kenju Murakami, Director of Japan Information Center, Consulate-General of Japan in New York
The W. E. Griffis Collection at Rutgers University	Dr. Fernanda Perrone, Archivist at Special Collections and University Archives, New Brunswick Libraries
報告者 Speakers	Professor Hamish Ion, Royal Military College of Canada Topic: “The Rutgers Connection: Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi and Early Meiji Japan” Discussant: Joseph Henning (Rochester Institute of Technology)   Professor John Van Sant, University of Alabama, Birmingham Topic: “The Japanese Class of 1870 at Rutgers” Discussant:Nathan Jérémie-Brink (New Brunswick Theological Seminary)   Professor Rui Kohiyama, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University Topic: “Were Wives Better Educated, Charms of Geisha Would Wane”: The Dutch Reformed Church and Its Contribution to Women’s Education in Meiji Japan”
ディスカッサント Discussant	Satoru Saito (Rutgers University)
閉会の辞 Closing Remarks	Prof. Paul Schalow, Chair, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University
議長 Convener	Prof. Haruko Wakabayashi, Rutgers University
共催 Co-sponsors	Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Northeast Asia Council for the Association for Asian Studies (NEAC) School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Rutgers University Rutgers Global
Links リンク	“Japan that Griffis Saw: Prints and Photographs from Meiji Japan” Class of 1937 Study Gallery, Zimmerli Art Museum https://sites.google.com/scarletmail.rutgers.edu/zimmerliathome/zimmerliathome/online-exhibitions/japan-that-griffis-saw?authuser=0   “Rutgers Meets Japan: Early Encounters” (Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar Website, Spring 2020) https://sites.rutgers.edu/rutgers-meets-japan/   Rutgers Meets Japan Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/Rutgers-Meets-Japan-101555198252185/