Japan & Philadelphia - the City of Brotherly Love

Reference for this Clubhouse Room.

City Hall : Map Location
- World’s largest free standing masonry building
- Opened: 1894 (world's tallest building at that time)
- National Historic landmark (2006)
- Appeared in "Rocky", "National Treasure", "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "Philadelphia", etc.
- William Penn: statue is the tallest and largest in the world on top of a building. Who is he?
-- Founded the city in 1682. PennSylvania!
-- Frame of Government of Pennsylvania (1682): Upper/Lower house ➡ Constitutional Design of the Senate (1787)
-- New type of community with religious toleration and a great deal of political freedom
-- Significant move towards democracy in America

Barnes Collection: Map Location
- Renoir (180 items), Cézanne (70 items), Matisse (60 items), etc.; more Cézanne than the entire city of Paris… totaling US$25B worth of art (est. 2013).
- Must make a reservation.
- Center of the greatest controversy of the art world
- Special Exhibit in Japan (1994): 1m+ visitors… setting a largest record number of visitors of an art exhibition in Japan, that is still not broken today. Line was as long as 12 km, waiting time as long as 5 hours, 7 ambulances.

Academy of Music: Map Location
- The oldest opera house in the US, opened in 1857, older than some of the Austrian-German opera houses: Vienna 1869, Bavaria 1875, etc.
- Home of the Opera Philadelphia company, and once shared with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
- Appeared in "The Age of Innocence".

The Victor Café: Map Location
- In the heart of South Philly: the largest Italian town of the U.S.
- Owner once worked for RCA. So the named Victor for it.
- 1952 RCA and Sharp's Tokuji Hayakawa cross licensing TV technology.
- Servers are opera students, singing opera arias for guests.
- Appeared as "Adrian's Restaurant" in Rocky's late series.

Shofuso (松風荘): Map Location
- Japan America Society & Urasenke Tea Ceremony
- Inside the Fairmount Park, the largest city park in the world
- Built in 1954 to celebrate Japan-US Friendship.

Memorial Hall: Map Location
- 1876: Centennial Exposition (the first official World's Fair to be held in the US)
- America’s First Major Exposure To Japanese Art And Design, the first and major cultural export success for Japan, made Japan world famous; Japan won several top prizes, and America went Japan-crazy after this, thanks to Ōkubo Toshimichi.
- Here is that glorious Japan Pavilion.
- Now "Please Touch Museum"

Wanamaker Pipe Organ: Map Location
- World's largest pipe organ is inside world's oldest department store.
- Enjoy shopping with live organ performance: schedule.
- Find similar one in Tokyo's Mitsukoshi Honten (HQ) store.
- Wanamaker department store appeared "Mannequin", remember the song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"?

Philadelphia Soul
- Hall & Oates (Remember this 1981 song)? + Keisuke Kuwata
- Temple University + Nobuhiko Ochiai

Morimoto: Map Location
- The Iron Chef!
- Appeared in "In Her Shoes"

Longwood Gardens: Map Location
- Arguably the most gorgeous and beautiful garden in the east, often compared with the Butchart Gardens in the west.
- From a Quaker to a du Pont.

Nitobe Inazo: Map Location (his house)
- A devoted Quaker
- Wrote "Bushido" and married a Quaker friend's daughter Mary-san (1891)
- Then went back to Japan to write "Life of William Penn" in Sapporo.
- With Mary-san, help established Tokyo Woman's Christian University (東京女子大学）

Umeko Tsuda: Map Location (Bryn Mawr College)
- 5,000 Yen with Philadelphia connections!
- Studied at Bryn Mawr College (one of the Seven Sisters)
- The entire campus is a U.S. National Register of Historic Place
- Inspired Umeko to establish Tsuda University (津田塾大学)
- BTW, Philadelphia has more college students than any other city in the U.S.

Elizabeth Gray Vining
- Another Bryn Mawr graduate and a Quaker
- Tutored Emperor Akihito of Japan in English while he was crown prince.
- Followed by another Quaker: Esther Rhoads
- But who selected her?

Bonner Fellers
- A protégé of General Douglas MacArthur
- Played a major role in exonerating Emperor Hirohito and all members of his family from WWII.
- 2012 film "Emperor"
- Quakers are Protectors of the Imperial Family… a myth or truth?
- You decide. Just follow the story of Kawai (河井みち, who also went to Bryn Mawr College following in Umeko's footsteps) & Yuri (一色ゆり).

The Masonic Temple: Map Location
- North America's HQ
- Opened 1873
- The ceremonial gavel used on that day by Grand Master Richard Vaux was the same gavel used by President George Washington in leveling the cornerstone of the nation's Capitol building in 1793.
- Appeared in "National Treasure".
- In Japan, look for the Tokyo Tower.

The Navy Yard: Map Location
- Hisaya Iwasaki (岩崎久弥): from 1888 for 5 Years in Philadelphia (Wharton) but also learned at the Navy Yard?
- Japanese-Russian War - Fate of the two protected cruisers
-- Russia (ヴァリャーグ Varyag): launched 1899
-- Japan (笠置 Kasagi): launched 1898
-- Uhei Masumoto (桝本卯平) , 26 to 27 year-old, graduated from University of Tokyo, hired at the Navy Yard to join the design of the Varyag… visited by Akiyama (a high-ranking Japan Navy officer) who was good friend of Komura, then Japan Ambassador to the US and sent Masumoto to work in the Navy Yard.
If you are a 007 fan, check this out. Or buy this book… to learn the "behind-the-scene" of how Japan won that war.

- Now, the Navy Yard is a renowned SDGs' business center:
-- GlaxoSmithKline
-- Urban Outfitters (cafeteria open to public, in an old shipyard building. Worth the visit! Map Location)

Edgar Allan Pоe National Historic Site: Map Location
- Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩) : real name Tarō Hirai (平井太郎). His pen name is a rendering of Poe's name, as Ranpo was an admirer of Western mystery writers, and especially of Edgar Allan Poe.
- Meet and feel the Raven at the site.

The Philadelphia Orchestra … a world-class orchestra & a community orchestra at its best!
- Special relationship with the Carnegie Hall
- Rachmaninov in their blood
- Current music director: a Montreal-born maestro Yannick-Nezet Seguin.
- Will discuss more at the next room...