An American in Japan, 1945-1948 : a civilian view of the occupation / Jacob Van Staaveren ; introduction by Akira Iriye.

Collection type Library
Author Van Staaveren, Jacob.;
Call Number 952.044 V217a
Document type Monograph
Year c1994.
Citation 94005717
Pagination xvii, 286 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Publisher University of Washington Press,
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-281) and index.
Place made Seattle
Abstract

1. Assignment to Japan -- 2. The Yamanashi Military Government Team -- 3. The Team's Task: Demilitarization and Education -- 4. The First School Inspections -- 5. Other Initial Duties -- 6. Democracy's Pangs in the Classroom -- 7. Secondary, Normal, andedical Schools -- 8. Yamanashi Teachers' Unions -- 9. Teaching Democracy to Japan's Adults -- 10. The Conundrum of Religious Freedom -- 11. Political Interlude: Surveillance of the April 1947 Elections -- 12. Inauguration of the Educational Structure --3. Further Reforms in Teacher Training -- 14. Private Schools and the School for the Handicapped -- 15. The School Lunch Program -- 16. Expansion of the Labor Education Program -- 17. Expansion of Adult Education Programs -- 18. Additional Religion andate Problems -- 19. Epilogue.

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