Jackson Bailey oral history interview

1980-03-22

Bailey, Jackson H.; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Jackson Bailey conducted by Marlene Mayo on March 22, 1980. Jackson Bailey (1925-1996) was born in Portland, Maine, and graduated from a Quaker high school right before the Occupation. Bailey was drafted into the Army Medical Corps in 1944 where he trained to be a cook and baker. In 1945, he was assigned to General Douglas MacArthur’s Headquarters (GHQ) in Manila, Philippines, and moved with MacArthur when he relocated to Japan after the war. Bailey was the first American to meet with Japanese Quakers after the war. After his time in Japan, Bailey returned to the United States and finished his education, eventually earning his PhD in Asian History at Harvard University. He went on to work at Earlham College, becoming the founder of the Institute for Education on Japan, whose work includes providing programs for students majoring in Japanese Studies. Bailey also created the Assistant English Teaching Program, which gave American students the opportunity to teach English to Japanese children. Bailey was a professor of history at Earlham College until his retirement in 1994, becoming an expert in Japanese culture and Japanese-American relations. Bailey passed away in Vermont in 1996.

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: 01:12:00 (audio cassette; 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-087504