"Cultural Diplomacy of Rudolf B. Teusler: Cooperation from the American and Japanese Political and Financial Sectors for the St. Luke’s International Hospital Project, 1911–1917" (2020)
Hiro Fujimoto, "Iryō senkyōshi Toisurā no bunka gaikō: 1911–1917 nen no Seiruka byōin kokusai byōinka keikaku ni okeru Nichibei seizaikai no kyōryoku
[Cultural Diplomacy of Rudolf B. Teusler: Cooperation from the American and Japanese Political and Financial Sectors for the St. Luke’s International Hospital Project, 1911–1917] ," America taiheiyō kenkyū, No. 20, 2020, pp. 75–91.
藤本大士「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」『アメリカ太平洋研究』(東京大学アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター)20号、2020年、75–91頁。
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15083/00079696
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Hiro Fujimoto, "Iryō senkyōshi Toisurā no bunka gaikō: 1911–1917 nen no Seiruka byōin kokusai byōinka keikaku ni okeru Nichibei seizaikai no kyōryoku
[Cultural Diplomacy of Rudolf B. Teusler: Cooperation from the American and Japanese Political and Financial Sectors for the St. Luke’s International Hospital Project, 1911–1917] ," America taiheiyō kenkyū, No. 20, 2020, pp. 75–91.
藤本大士「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」『アメリカ太平洋研究』(東京大学アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター)20号、2020年、75–91頁。
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15083/00079696
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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.