Three expert panelists provide insight into the grassroots efforts of ordinary citizens to better relations between the U.S. and Japan in 1927. They also reveal efforts to preserve the surviving dolls and continuing relations started 75 years ago. The panel features Michiko Takaoka, director of the Japanese Cultural Center, Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, Spokane, Washington; Rosie Skiles, Friendship Doll Researcher, Japanese American Doll Enthusiasts; and Dr. Sidney Gulick III, grandson of the initiator of the 1927 exchange and co-founder of Friendship Ambassador, Inc. Join us in learning more about this little-known legacy of past and current Friendship Doll exchanges on both sides of the Pacific.

1:30-2:30 pm English Language Panel Discussion
2:30-3:00 pm Book Signing
3:00-4:00 pm Japanese Language Presentation