The Gordon W. Prange Collection @UMDLibraries is the archive of Japanese publications issued during the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949. 日本語アカウント→@PrangeColl_jp
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The countdown to #MarylandDay is on! 🎉
Join our UMD community on April 25 for a day full of discovery, creativity and Terp pride across campus: marylandday.umd.edu
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Our "Unboxing Innovation" exhibit is now open in Hornbake Library! Dig into historic and unique UMD archival materials and learn about our efforts to increase the scope and accessibility of our special collections and university archives. Open through the end of the school year!
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What did housing look like in postwar Japan & how was it advertised?🤔🏡 Today’s #NCCShowcase is a student research article from work in the @PrangeColl at @UMDLibraries! Haruna Maeyama dives into their wealth of catalogs to explore this fascinating topic: prangecollection.wordpress.c…
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Researching modern Japan? 3,700+ items of @PrangeColl's Censored Newspaper Articles, materials issued by the Civil Censorship Detachment 民間検閲支隊 (1945–1952), are now available (without login!) via NDL’s digital collections! Learn more at: prangecollection.wordpress.c… #NDLOutreach
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For today’s #NCCShowcase Kana Jenkins (@PrangeColl) shares a new acquisition, the George T. Hagen papers! Hagen was a prosecutor with GHQ-SCAP (1946) and chairman of the Parole Board (1950), leaving boxes of records on the Tokyo Tribunal. Learn more at: prangecollection.wordpress.c…
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Here's to bright semester together 💛
Have a great first day of class, Terps!
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Today’s #NCCShowcase is a fantastic student-curated exhibition coordinated by Kana Jenkins (@PrangeColl) & Dr. Alicia Volk: Onchi Kōshirō, Graphic Artist: Picturing Postwar Japan! prangecollection.wordpress.c…
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Calling scholars outside UMD! UMD Libraries' Awards for 20th Century Research in Japan are now open! These grants support research in the our Gordon W. Prange Collection and the #EastAsianStudies. Learn more & apply! lib.umd.edu/about/awards/jap… #ResearchGrants
ALT Person using the Prange Collection materials.
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"Gen. MacArthur for the President.
A best qualified person to protect democracy and mankind from the ruffian who disturbs the peace of the world." - Toshiyo Oda [From 1948, during the period when MacArthur was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Occupation of Japan]
Less than 3 wks till the US presidential election. Some photos relates to the1948 election, when General Douglas McArthur sought for a Republication nomination, are found in the Mead Smith Karras papers. #UMDSpecialcollections
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Interested in modern Japan & oral histories? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Kana Jenkins & Amy Wasserstrom (@PrangeColl, @UMDLibraries), introducing great resources of The Marlene J. Mayo Oral Histories collection of interviews on Allied Occupied Japan! 🎙️🗾 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage…
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How do we bring library collections into our pedagogy? Today’s #NCCShowcase is a new pub by Kana Jenkins (@PrangeColl) “Oral Histories as Primary Sources in the Classroom: Examples from the Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries”! www2.archivists.org/publicat…
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What will the future of Japan Studies librarianship look like for the next generation? In this roundtable from our 30th anniversary, four information specialists reflect on “Celebrating Past Achievements and Establishing a Path Forward”! 📚🌟🛣️ guides.nccjapan.org/30th-ann…
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We welcomed a very special guest in the Special Collections reading room today! 🐢
Thanks @Testudo_UMD!
ALT Testudo the mascot with special collections staff member Cate Mayfield
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Check out these really great resources on postwar Japanese history outlined here
Kudos to the Modern Japan History Association (@modernjapanhist) for a successful Distinguished Annual Lecture with Dr. Tessa Morris-Suzuki! Great talk on the History in Occupied Japan and its lasting impacts in our time. Of course we have TONS items that relate to the talk..🧵
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A slideshow based on my article on Japanese female vocalists who began their careers singing jazz and pop in the Occupation bases at dance parties (with soldiers and their Japanese girlfriends) is at the link below. It does of course use Prange sources. docs.google.com/presentation…
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Today’s #NCCShowcase is Kana Jenkins (@UofMaryland, @UMDLibraries), who has been working to expand the @PrangeColl/@PrangeColl_jp collections on modern Japan, including a recent acquisition of 900+ photos & color slides from 1955-56! 😮 Read about it here! prangecollection.wordpress.c…
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At our 2021 anniversary event librarians Matthew Hayes (@DukeLibraries), Kana Jenkins (@UMDLibraries), Rebecca Mendelson (@upennlib), & Mitsutaka Nakamura (@UHMLibrary) spoke on career paths, the pandemic, & the field's future! Listen to our roundtable at: guides.nccjapan.org/30th-ann…
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How do human stories reflect histories of wartime & postwar Japan? In this #NCCSpotlight on The Marlene J. Mayo Oral Histories collection of the @PrangeColl Kana Jenkins & Amy Wasserstrom highlight what these interviews can teach us! 🎙️ guides.nccjapan.org/homepage…
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This month’s #NCCSpotlight by Katherine Matsuura (Japan Digital Scholarship Librarian @HarvardLibrary) introduces the stunning updates to the Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project for comparative work on Japan’s modern politics!📑🗾 #日本国憲法 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage…