Japanese doll welcomed home after 73 years in U.S.

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows the ''Miss Fukuoka'' doll sent to the United States 73 years ago as a token of friendship at a time of rising anti-Japanese sentiment there. The doll was welcomed home to Yokohama Doll Museum in a ceremony Nov. 10. The doll, one of 58 manually crafted dolls collected from various parts of Japan, left for the U.S. from the port of Yokohama on Nov. 19, 1927. They were sent in exchange for 13,000 ''blue-eyed dolls'' sent to schools in Japan from the U.S. on the initiative of an American missionary as a symbol of U.S. friendship.