In 1917, St. Luke’s Hospital in Tokyo was renamed to St. Luke’s International Hospital. This name change represented the new function of the hospital, which was to ease the political tension between the United States and Japan through its humanitarian medical work. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Americans expressed sympathy toward Japan, but the Japanese victory resulted in the rise of American antipathy against the nation. Thus, some non-governmental figures tried to promote friendship between two countries. One good example is Rudolf B. Teusler, the founder of St. Luke’s Hospital and a medical missionary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States. He not only practiced as a physician but also acted as an unofficial diplomat. This paper aims to demonstrate how Teusler successfully developed the international hospital project by acquiring significant assistance from leading figures in both American and Japanese political and business circles. His project was a product of the widespread expectations of diverse advocates, including President Woodrow Wilson and other pacifist figures in the United States as well as Prime Minster Ōkuma Shigenobu, leading businessman Shibusawa Eiichi, and other governmental officers in Japan. Whereas the existing scholarship on cultural diplomacy tended to focus on the post-WWI period, this paper explores Teusler’s pioneering cultural diplomacy between the United States and Japan in the 1910s.
内容記述
論文
Articles
雑誌名
アメリカ太平洋研究 = Pacific and American studies
ページ
75 - 91
発行年
2020-03
ISSN
13462989
書誌レコードID
AA11562201
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院総合文化研究科附属グローバル地域研究機構アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
出版者別名
Center for Pacific and American Studies, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo
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医療宣教師トイスラーの文化外交 : 1911–1917年の聖路加病院国際病院化計画における日米政財界の協力
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