Friendship dolls

1927 international exchange between the United States and Japan

Friendship dolls, Japanese friendship dolls , or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls , were dolls sent between Japan and the United States in 1927. The dolls were meant to improve the deteriorated relationship between Japan and America that had resulted from the Immigration Act of 1924, which prohibited East Asians from immigrating to the United States and sparked anti-Japanese exclusion movements in California and other parts of the US. The Friendship dolls were meant to inspire children to cultivate friendship with the children of the other country, rather than to initiate specific political or legal changes.

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