米国フレンズ奉仕団と日本(1)

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  • ベイコク フレンズ ホウシダン ト ニホン 1
  • The American Friends Service Committee and Japan(1)

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The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in the US during WWI to provide conscientious objectors to war with alternative noncombatant works to military service. It sent young people to Europe and cared for WWI refugees. When the war was over, it reorganized itself to perform services committed to the principles of justice and nonviolence. It is now independent from the Society of Friends and one of an NGO which carries out service, development, social justice, and peace programs both at home and abroad. The AFSC's commitment to Japan started in 1923 when it gave emergency aid to Japan that suffered from the Great Kanto Earthquake. It also helped organize the Japan Friends Service Committee then. The next year, the Exclusion Act was passed in the US Congress. The AFSC protested to the injustice and undertook the project to invite Japanese youths to study in the US to promote mutual understanding between Japan and the US. It concentrated its efforts to help the interned Japanese American during the Pacific War. This paper surveys the AFSC's relationship with Japan and Japanese people until the end of the war.

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