Category Archives: military history
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
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
Off Duty
More will be added as I find them, but here are almost half a dozen Off Duty articles about living in Japan.
FASO Today
Two articles and some photos from: FASO Today reproduced by scanning the originals and using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to turn the images into editable text. The photos at the bottom were from a third article, obviously centered on Continue reading FASO Today
Seahawk
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
North Islander
At the request of FASOTRAGRUPAC, I wrote one article for the North Islander the base paper for Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California.
Kenko Shimbun articles
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).
Navy Times article
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
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC)
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)