John K. Emmerson oral history interview

1980-03-16/1981-06-03

Emmerson, John K.; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with John K. Emmerson conducted by Marlene May on March 16 1980 & June 3 1981. John K. Emmerson (1908 -1984) served in Japan before WWII and later as a Foreign Service officer on Japan and Northeast Asia. During the Occupation, Emmerson was a political advisor to General Douglas MacArthur with the Political Advisor’s Office (POLAD).  He returned to the U.S. in 1946, to later be sent back to Japan by President Kennedy to act as deputy to Ambassador Reischauer in 1962. He wrote a book "The Japanese Thread," which goes into detail about his career as a diplomat.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; District of Columbia

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 03:54:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 30 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087535