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Anticommunism and Academic Freedom: Walter C. Eells and the “Red Purge” in Occupied Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Ruriko Kumano
Ruriko Kumano*
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University of Hawaii at Manoa College of International Relations at Nihon University, Japan
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In August 1945, Imperial Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers. From September 1945 to April 1952, the United States–the most dominant power among the victorious nations–occupied the defeated country.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , November 2010 , pp. 513 - 537
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