Korean War… Koreans and Military Training in Japan, 1947-48 16 Apr 2015 Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in a single box at the US National Archives -- otherwise known as RG331 (Allied Operational and Occupation HQ), SCAP Government Section, Administrative Division,…
China… Chinese Journalists and the U.S. Occupation of Japan 5 Apr 20156 Apr 2015 At the conclusion of eight years of Japanese occupation of nearly every major city in the Republic of China, Chinese journalists were prepared not just to celebrate victory but to…
American Foreign Policy… The Correspondent and His Typewriter: Keyes Beech in Northeast Asia in the 1950s 19 Aug 20091 Sep 2009 Foreign correspondents in East Asia in the late 1940s and early 1950s were a wild and wonderful bunch, but few were more incisive or entertaining than Keyes Beech. Perhaps because…