Spring 2016
CCD Documents
Articles on Ethnicity: Tamashii (The Soul)
Articles on Ethnicity: Minshu Chosen (Democratic Korea)
Poem "Yakeato" (The Aashes)
Articles on Ethnicity: Chosen Shin Minpo (New Peoples Magazine-Korea)
Kokusai (The International)
Articles on Class and Gender
Directives & Important Releases of GHQ
Zadankai 1
Zadankai 2
Zadankai 3
Zadankai 4
Zadankai 5
Zadankai 6
Zadankai 7
Ricahrd C. Rudolph East Asian Library
How to Access the East Asian Library's Prange Microform Collection
UCLA Prange Microform Collection User Guide. Created by Eric Siercks, September 2018. (Move the internal scroll bar if blank or open the link.)
About Gordon W. Prange Collection
The most comprehensive print media archive of occupied Japan, the Gordon W. Prange Collection covers a period of Japan's reconstruction from the end of imperial Japan to the beginning of the Cold War era. During the period of 4 years immediately after World War II from September 1945 through November 1949, all publications were censored in Japan. Pre-publication materials in manuscript, galley proof, or print form were submitted by publishers for review to the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD) Press, Pictorial and Broadcasting Division, a unit overseen by the Office of the Chief of Counter-Intelligence in General Headquarters (GHQ) of the United States Army Forces, Pacific, under General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP). The CCD censored civilian communications including correspondence, telecommunication, press, radio broadcasting and films. Thus collected materials were brought out from Japan to the United States in 1950 by G. W. Prange (1910-1980), chief of historical staff who served for the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1951 and history professor of the University of Maryland where they are curated. Allied occupation of Japan lasted for 6 years and 8 months from September 2, 1945 to April 28, 1952.
The processing began in 1962, the collection was named after Dr. Prange in 1978, and through collaboration with NDL cataloging and microfilming began in 1992. The collection contains:
[Censored against violation of the Code for Japanese Press by the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD) under the SCAP Press, Publication and Broadcast Division (PPB) located at General Headquarters, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (GHQ/SCAP) 連合国最高司令官総司令部 in Tokyo between October 1945 and November 1949.]
“Code for Japanese Press” (21 Sept 1945)
The 20th Century Media Information Database 20世紀メディア情報データベース: Online index to the Prange microform collection of occupation-period magazines and newspapers, 1945-1949. The collection contains 13,783 magazines (62,977 microfiches) and 18,047 newspapers and newsletters (3,826 microfilm reels).
Listings of Children’s Books of the Prange Collection provided by the National Diet Library:
Inventories of News Photographs provided by Prange Collection:
Lists of Magazines and Newspapers in the Microfom Collection
Guides and Other Relevant Publications
Other Resources
University of Maryland Gordon W. Prange Collection
Howard Rovelstad, University of Maryland Libraries Director, with Prange shipment from Japan (1953)
Courtesy of Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries
Symposium on Post-War Japan in the Nuclear Age
WHEN: Friday, 11/08/2019 RSVP
WHERE: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library (YRL) Main Conference Room (room 11360) floor map
11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Discussion/Zadankai
Setsu SHIGEMATSU, Associate Professor, UC Riverside “Obama and Hiroshima: The Black Mirror and Necropolitical Poetics”
Intermission: Screening of Hiroshima: A Mother's Prayer ヒロシマ・母たちの祈り
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Celebrating the seventieth anniversary of both UCLA Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library and Asian Languages & Culture Department, the East Asian Library presents its third zadankai (round-table talks). The speakers on two panels discuss how to do transnational studies and its significance for the present conjuncture. They share their methods, agendas, and philosophies in research and writing.
When: Monday, June 4th, 2018 |12 pm - 2 pm & 4 pm - 6 pm
Where: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library West Classroom (YRL Rm 23167)
12 pm - 2 pm <1st Panel>
Part I (12 - 2 pm) 1:36 hr
Part II (4 - 6 pm) 1:57 hr
Bringing the Archives of Wartime and Occupied Japan to Life: Perspectives from the Public and Private Sectors
As part of the 70th anniversary celebration program UCLA Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library presents a panel discussion on Japanese archival materials. This panel brings together several different approaches to Japanese archival materials from the wartime and occupation periods (ca. 1940-1952). The panel was originally held at the 2018 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
~ Presentations:
座談会 ― 戦後日本の階級・ジェンダー・民族
Zadankai: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Postwar Japan
時: Wednesday, May 4th 2016 1pm - 3 pm
場所: UCLA Young Research Library West Classroom (YRL Rm 23167)
UCLA East Asian Library (EAL), the only holding library in the West of the Mississippi of Gordon W. Prange microform collection (13,783 magazines and 18,047 newspapers and newsletters censored in occupied Japan between 1945 and 1949), has served students and scholars beyond UCLA becoming a major hub for postwar Japanese studies. The EAL provides a venue for free academic discussions for those “Prange” scholars to exchange and share their views and research. Inviting Kōji TOBA, Professor of Literature at Waseda University and Yanai Visiting Professor (Spring 2016) with research interests in Kōbō Abe and Minpei Sugiura, zadankai or an impromptu round-table talk is organized. Joining scholars to the table are Kristine DENNEHY, Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton with research interests in zainichi Koreans and Asian history pedagogy, and Michiko TAKEUCHI, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach with research interests in pan-pan girls and oral history. Their free-floating discussion will be facilitated by UCLA Professor of History, Katsuya HIRANO.
Professor TAKEUCHI
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On Class:
On Gender:
On Ethnicity:
Zadankai I Handout. (Move the internal scroll bar if blank or open the link.)
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