1871年に日本にやって来た婦人宣教師たち
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When Japan opened its ports (Yokohama etc) to foreign trade in 1859, sailors, merchants, ministers, etc from western countries came to this country. As a consequence some number of half-caste children were born to Japanese women most of whom were prostitutes and this issue gradually became a social problem. Then American missionaries were worried and brought it to the attention their board of missions in America and asked for help. In America, then, just after the Civil War, the humanism movement was on the rise and an enthusiasm for foreign mission was at its highest as well. The Woman's Union Missionary Society, a nation-wide christian women association, took great concern about this issue and decided to send three woman missionaries to Japan to deal with this problem. After 40 days of a dangerous ocean voyage across the pacific, the three ladies Mrs. Pruyn. Ms. Crosby, Mrs. Pierson arrived at Yokohama in 1871o They soon built "Children's Home" for those children. Later, this Home developed into a girl's school and produced a great number of excellent Japanese women whose works greatly contributed to the development of Kindergartens and Day Nurseries in Japan. M.Nakamura (one of the founders of the first Japanese national Kindergarten) deeply impressed by those ladies taking care of the children as if they were their real mothers, drafted the advertisement for the Home. This Home was bigining of a Kindergartens and other welfare institution in Japan.
- 日本保育学会の論文
- 1989-05-10