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Title
Diary & memoirs of two years with the occupation in Japan
Creator
Polkinghorn, Frank
Date Created and/or Issued
1969
Publication Information
The Drucker Institute
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Kenneth Hopper Papers on Management
Rights Information
All rights are retained by The Drucker Institute. For permission to use this item, contact The Drucker Institute, https://www.drucker.institute/about/drucker-archives/
Description
The diary and memoirs of Frank Polkinghorn's two years in Japan as director of the Research and Development Division of the Civil Communications Section (CCS) of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers (SCAP). It consists of: the Preface; Chapter 1: Prologue; Chapter 2: Getting Settled; Chapter 3: The Supreme Command Allied Powers; Chapter 4: Getting Around; Chapter 5: A Visit to Tohoku University; Chapter 6: By Private Railway Car to Kyushu; Chapter 7: The Family in Bloomfield & Enroute to Tokyo; Chapter 8: The Family is Together Again; Chapter 9: The New Science Council is Inaugurated; Chapter 10: On the Japanese Language and its Use; Chapter 11: Lectures Start for the University Professors; Chapter 12: Hina Matsuri and a New Automobile; Chapter 13: Japan in the Spring; Chapter 14: Japan in May; Chapter 15: We Go to the Kite Festival at Hoshibana; Chapter 16: Two Attempts to Climb Mt. Fuji; Chapter 17: Vacation at Karuizawa; Chapter 18: The Industrial Management Course Starts; Chapter 19: A Visit to Hokkaido; Chapter 20: We Visit Nikko; Chapter 21: Priscilla and the Children Ride in the Horse Show; Chapter 22: The Second Industrial Management Class Graduates; Chapter 23: Only a Few Months to Go; Chapter 24: The Studys & Protzmans Return to the U. S.; Chapter 25: Our Time in Japan Grows Short; Chapter 26: Our Return to New Jersey; Appendix A: Briefing of the Visiting Scientists of the Second United States Scientific Mission to Japan; Appendix B: Some Observations Concerning Engineers and Engineering in Japan; Appendix C: A Brief Introduction to a Meeting on Receiver Noise; Engineering Economics; Responsibilities of Engineers in Industry; The Organization of Research & Development; Remarks at Opening of the Electrical Communications Laboratory; Remarks at the 60th Anniversary of the Matsuda Lamp; A Talk to Future Communication Engineers; The Improvement of Telecommunications Engineering Education in Japan; Briefing of Generals Church and Danforth; Foreword to CCS Book on Industrial Management authored by Charles Protzman and Homer Sarasohn. The Chronology of World War II and Slides of Japan were pages that were not hole punched and fastened to Polkinghorn's diary and memoirs.
Type
text
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
khp00199.pdf
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/khp/id/123
Language
English
Subject
Diaries
Autobiography
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Japan
Sarasohn, Homer, 1916-2001
Industrial management
Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo (Japan)
Telecommunication
Communication
Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931
Management
Industries
Engineers
Engineering economy
Denki Tsūshin Gakkai
Meetings
Telephone
Scientists
College teachers
Children
Schools
Fuji, Mount (Japan)
Festivals
Soldiers
Japanese language
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Health
Leisure
Factories
Tours
MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964
Travel
Polkinghorn, Frank
Civil Communications Section (CCS)
Protzman, Charles W., Sr
Electrical Communication Laboratory
Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers
Polkinghorn, Priscilla
Polkinghorn, Caroline (Siss)
Polkinghorn, Frank, Jr. (Ponky)
Polkinghorn, Frederic
Polkinghorn, Robert (Skippy)
Time Period
Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D
Nineteen forties
Nineteen fifties
Place
Verona (N.J.)
Tokyo (Japan)
Source
Original diary and memoirs: Diary & Memoirs of Two Years with the Occupation in Japan, 1969; Kenneth Hopper Papers on Management; Box 3 CCS Manual and Polkinghorn Diary; 264 pages
Relation
Kenneth Hopper Papers on Management - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/khp

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