Justin Williams Jr. oral history interview

2015-06-10

Williams, Justin, Jr.; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Justin Williams Jr. conducted by Marlene Mayo on June 10, 2015. Justin Williams (1929 - ) was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, but attended high school in Pacific Grove, CA before him and his mother moved to Japan to be with his father. His father, Justin Williams, Sr., was a first lieutenant in the Army for General Douglas MacArthur's staff, working in the Government Section of SCAP. Williams arrived in Japan during the winter of 1946, remaining there until 1948. He attended the Tokyo American School to finish his high school education and then spent one year as a sailor with the Office of U.S. Army Transportation Command. When he returned back to the United States, he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated from the Naval ROTC program and with a bachelor’s degree in international affairs. He then spent sixteen years in the Marines, becoming a deputy controller and working as a data processor during the Vietnam War. While with the Marines, he earned his master’s in international affairs and his MBA from George Washington University. He then went on to work for the U.S. Agency for International Development for about sixteen years, before retiring at the age of 55.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; Virginia; Arlington

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 02:19:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript 52 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 2015-0019-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087601