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Check List of Seized Japanese Records in the National Archives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

James William Morley
James William Morley
Affiliation:
Union College
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On May 18, 1948, the Archivist of the United States accessioned from the Foreign Documents Branch of the Central Intelligence Agency a collection of over 30,000 volumes of official records which had been seized in Japan by the United States government. Known as the “World War II collection of seized enemy records: Japan,” these volumes now form part of record group 242 and occupy some 3,450 cubic feet of space in the War Records Division of the National Archives. Being in good condition and unrestricted, they form basic sources for any study of modern Japanese military history. They are one of the largest bodies of primary Japanese materials on any subject available in the United States and can be expected to shed light also on various phases of Japan's modern social, economic, political, and diplomatic development.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , May 1950 , pp. 306 - 333
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950

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* Mr. Morley, Instructor in History at Union College, Schenectady, New York, was in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 1949 on a Social Science Research Council fellowship to carry on research in modern Japanese foreign relations.

1 Other major collections of new Japanese materials being made available to American scholars by the occupation include the following: (1) a collection of some 250,000 printed books, seized in Japan and her outlying territories during and after World War II, which have been turned over to the Library of Congress. Those volumes not formerly in the Library of Congress collection are being added to it; the rest are being accessioned by interested university libraries; (2) materials relating to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East available at the Library of Congress and elsewhere. (See Brown, Delmer M., “Recent Japanese political and historical materials, The American political science review, 43[October 1949], 1010-17CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Liu, James T. C., “The Tokyo trial: source materials,” Far eastern survey, 17 [July 28, 1948], 168-70)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; (3) “United States strategic bombing survey records,” accessioned by the War Records Division of the National Archives and now mostly unrestricted (see U.S.s.b.s., Index to records of the United States strategic bombing survey [June 1947, declassified 1949]); (4) Japanese Foreign Office records, now being microfilmed in Japan by the State Department in co-operation with the Library of Congress, to be deposited eventually in the Library of Congress.

2 Characters which repeat those given in immediately preceding phrases have been omitted throughout this article.