hanover nh - asakawa
Asakawa Kan’ichi, 朝河 貫一 (1873-1948), was born in 1873 in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, Japan, and graduated from Tokyo Senmon Gakko (Waseda University). Asakawa continued his education in the United States and received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1899 and his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1902. Having seen how little Japan was understood in the United States at the turn of the century, Asakawa decided to dedicate his life to the enhancement of mutual understanding between Japan and the United States. This he did through a lifetime of devotion to scholarship while teaching first at Dartmouth College (1902-1906) and then at Yale University from 1907 to 1942. He also published his Causes of the Russo-Japanese War and took such interest in the peace conference that Dartmouth President William Tucker paid his expenses to be in Portsmouth during the Treaty proceedings in August 1905.
Later, Tucker gave the address at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1906 when a memorial tablet was dedicated on Building 86 where the Treaty was signed. (Building 86 now contains the Treaty Rooms exhibit and the tablet still flanks the main entrance.)
Later, Tucker gave the address at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 1906 when a memorial tablet was dedicated on Building 86 where the Treaty was signed. (Building 86 now contains the Treaty Rooms exhibit and the tablet still flanks the main entrance.)
