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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1058-3947
- eISSN
- 1876-5610
- DOI
- 10.1163/187656194X00283
- Publisher site
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Abstract
An American's Life in Japan before a n d after Pearl Harbor Robert Crowder Beverly Hills, California In the s u m m e r of 1934, the tangled interplay of relatives, friends, a n d communications w i t h the Foreign School in Pyongyang Korea fate- fully lifted me out of Bethany, m y small home t o w n in central Illinois. I was twenty-two years old at the time and h a d finished four years of c o l l e g e - o n e at Eastern Illinois Teacher's College a n d three more at James Millikin University a n d Conservatory of Music. But I was com- pletely u n e d u c a t e d in the art of travel. In fact I h a d crossed the Illinois state line only once or twice with friends a n d relatives. Suddenly finding myself on the S.S. President Taft en route to Japan, I realized h o w sheltered a n d secluded my life h a d been. Several mis- sionaries returning to their posts in China a n d Japan gave me their friendship
Journal
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994