Welcome Home, Miss Iwate!

BPL Executive Director Floyd Council and Masaru Aoki of Japan’s YoshitokuDoll Company
welcome Miss Iwate back home

Miss Iwate, Birmingham Public Library's Japanese Friendship Doll, returned on March 26, 2018, from a 4-month 90th birthday celebration tour in Japan. She was part of an exhibition across the Iwate Prefecture in Japan from Dec. 5, 2017 to March 22, 2018 with other dolls as part of a traveling tour.

Read more about Miss Iwate and her journey here.

Thank you to everyone in the Iwate Prefecture who took such good care of her. We're so glad she had a grand time and we're happy to have her back home in Birmingham.

An exhibit poster featuring Miss Iwate and her fellow Friendship
Dolls