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Oral history interview with Robert E. Ward,, 1967.

Creator: Ward, Robert E.
Project: Carnegie Corporation project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 86 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Director, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Committee on Comparative Politics, Social Science Research Council; Director, Center for Research in International Studies, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution.

Scope and Contents

Joining University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies; development of the University’s Japanese studies program and early Carnegie Corporation financial support, 1947-1948; field work in Okayama, Japan and VILLAGE JAPAN, 1950-1959; POLITICAL MODERNIZATION OF JAPAN project; THE POLITICS OF THE DEVELOPING AREAS, 1960-1966. Discussion of the University of Michigan’s Far East studies degree programs; the current state of U.S. Japanese language education; the development and structure of university area studies departments; interest in Japanese studies in the years following WWII; receiving departmental funding from private foundations and the U.S. government and potential conflicts of interest; comparisons between working with Carnegie, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council; how social science, political science, and the humanities relate to area studies; collaborating with Japanese scholars and the restrictions of academia in postwar Japan. Impressions of William W. Marvel, Pendleton Herring, Robert A. Hall, John W. Gardner.

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