Occupation of Japan project : oral history, 1960-2003 bulk 1960-1962.

Scope and Contents

This project embraces the memoirs of various participants in the occupation of Japan and in the formulation of its Constitution. Within the overall discussions of occupation programs and policies are specific accounts of social, economic, agricultural, educational, and cultural developments, together with material on the purges and problems of civil rights. There are vivid descriptions of the drafting of the new Constitution and steps leading to the change in the role of the Emperor of Japan. Leading figures of Supreme Command Allied Powers and the Far Eastern Commission are portrayed in action, notably Generals Douglas MacArthur, Courtney Whitney, Charles Willoughby, and Colonels Charles Kades and Richard Nugent Participants and pagination of transcripts: Lauren V. Ackerman, 28; Roger Nash Baldwin, 116; Joseph Ballantine, 271; Faubion Bowers, 56; Burton Crane, 74; Esther Crane, 58; Eugene Dooman, 171; Beate Gordon, 197; Joseph Gordon (1961), 31; Joseph Gordon (2002), 99; Alvin Grauer, 139; John Harold, 54; Harold Henderson, 61; Lulu Holmes, 54; Charles Kades, 78; Ai Kume, 59; Josephine McKean, 79; Douglas Overton, 51; Cyrus H. Peake, 55; Harlan Youel, 53. Each interviewee's oral history individually cataloged

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Japan--Foreign relations--United States.
• Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.
• Japan--Social conditions--1945-
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations--Japan.