May 5, 1910 The New York Daily Tribune announced the coming arrival of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa to New York City, following his diplomatic visit to Washington, D.C. Scheduled to coincide with the arrival of Prince Iyesato Tokugawa (1863-1940), was the recent arrival of a delegation of sixty Japanese. Prince Tokugawa and his delegation had all spent time together in Washington, D.C., prior to visiting New York City. Several members of that delegation are shown in the upper newspaper photo. The individual standing behind the gentlemen in the long white coat and next to the individual in the white hat, is Yukio Ozaki the Mayor of Japan’s capital city, Tokyo, who is the Japanese official most often remembered being linked to the Japanese gifting of cherry blossom trees to the U.S. capital city of Washington, D.C. Continue Reading...

Prince Tokugawa (above); Baron Shibusawa (left); S. Shimada (right)

In 1917, out of empathy for the enormous suffering, death, and destruction in Europe during World War One (1914-1918), Prince Tokugawa and his Japanese supporters published a condolence booklet honoring their Allies. Japan strongly assisted her Allies militarily and also aided the Allies’ sick and wounded during and after the war. Above is the first page from this condolence booklet that describes the Japanese creating an association that collected a monetary fund that was gifted to Allied nations to help with their health costs. Continue Reading...

Clay version of the bronze relief sculpture that is to be presented to the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park, San Diego.

President Roosevelt, Prince Tokugawa, Baron Shibusawa, President Taft

During the first decades of the 1900s, they allied together to promote amity between their nations. This website presents additional blog posts revealing the strong alliance between them. Continue Reading...