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Sidney Lewis Gulick
1860–1945
Born in the Marshall Islands to missionary parents, he became an American educator, author, and Congregational missionary whose life’s work centered on building understanding between Japan and the United States. He is especially remembered for speaking out against anti-Japanese prejudice and arguing for fairer treatment of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans.
2 Audiobooks
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic
by Sidney Lewis Gulick
Working Women of Japan
by Sidney Lewis Gulick
About the author
After graduating from Dartmouth and Union Theological Seminary, he spent many years in Japan as a missionary and teacher. His close experience with Japanese society shaped much of his writing, which tried to explain Japan to American readers at a time when misunderstanding and suspicion were common.
He went on to publish a number of books on Japan, race relations, and immigration, including Evolution of the Japanese and The American Japanese Problem. In the United States, he became a public advocate for better relations between the two countries and for more just immigration policies.
Later accounts of his life also remember him as an early and unusually prominent defender of the rights of Japanese Americans. That combination of religious work, scholarship, and public advocacy makes him a notable figure in the history of U.S.-Japan relations.