Kathleen Charters and Lawrence Charters
Explorations large and small
On May 1, 2019, Emperor Naruhito became the 126th Emperor of Japan. The Japanese imperial dynasty is the oldest dynasty in history, officially tracing back to 660 BC. Modern historians think it started somewhere between 200 and 600 AD. In Continue reading Beautiful Harmony
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was the Pacific and Asian theater version of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, held after World War II to punish the military and political leaders responsible for the war. Most Continue reading International Military Tribunal for the Far East
More will be added as I find them, but here are almost half a dozen Off Duty articles about living in Japan.
Several hundred items were published in the Yokosuka Seahawk and I no longer have copies of most of those stories. It will take me considerable time to convert the articles I still retain. These were scanned from the printed originals. Continue reading Seahawk
Several articles from Kenko Shimbun have been published. This newsletter was published on mimeograph and xerography for the U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan. These were scanned from printed originals, and converted to text via OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
Two articles (so far) from: At Your Leisure have been posted. The original publications were printed on newsprint, which is definitely not the medium of choice for long-term preservation. These were reproduced via scans and OCR (Optical Character Recognition).
I shared credit for one story in Navy Times It was written in the 1980s, when the yen in Japan started at 360 to the dollar and, by 1987, had risen to 105 to the dollar. As the military personnel Continue reading Navy Times article
Yokosuka Computer Club (Yokosuka Naval Base, Yokosuka, Japan) needed a newsletter, so I created one, the Yokosuka Computer Rag It was originally typed on a TRS-80 Model III and printed on a daisy-wheel printer. After getting a Macintosh and an Continue reading Yokosuka Computer Rag newsletters
Added paper presented at the: ASPAC (Association for Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast) 1979 meeting in Olympia, Washington. This was held at Evergreen State College. The text was scanned from a typewritten original manuscript, then edited for “typos” introduced Continue reading Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC)