Japanese friendship dolls (友情人形, jūjō ningyō?) or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls (青い目の人形, aoi me no ningyō?) were programs of goodwill between Japan and the United States. American Sidney Gulick, a missionary in Japan, initiated an exchange of dolls between children as a way to ease cultural tensions in 1920s. Japanese Viscount Eiichi Shibusawa responded by initiating a program to send 58 dolls to American museums and libraries.
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