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Gordon W. Prange

Gordon W. Prange was born in Pomeroy, Iowa on
July 16, 1910. He studied at the University of Iowa,
receiving his Ph.D. in 1937. That same year, he began
his teaching career as a professor of history at theUniversity of Maryland.
In 1942, he was granted a leave of absence from theUniversity to embark on a wartime career as anofficer in the United States Navy. He was sent toJapan in 1945 as a member of the American
Occupation Forces. He completed his Navy service
soon thereafter, but continued in Japan as a civilian
from 1946 to 1951 as chief of General Douglas
MacArthur's 100-person historical staff.
When censorship of the Japanese media by Allied
Forces was lifted in 1949 and the Civil Censorship
Detachment disestablished, Professor Prange,
recognizing the historical significance of the CCD
material, arranged for its shipment to the Universityof Maryland. The materials arrived at the Universityin 1950. On September 15, 1978, the Board ofRegents of the University of Maryland passed amotion to name the collection the "Gordon W. Prange
Collection: The Allied Presence in Japan, 19451952."
Professor Prange continued to teach at the Universityof Maryland until several months before his death onMay 15, 1980. He is still remembered by alumni as
one of the University's truly great teachers, and iswell known today for major works on the war in thePacific, particularly Tora! Tora! Tora!

Supported by
The Master of Arts Program for Journalist
Education in Science and Technology, Graduate
School of Political Science,Science, Waseda University
For Inquiries about the Prange Collection,please contact:
Eiko Sakaguchi
Phone: 301-405-9135
Email: eikos@umd.edu

East Asia Collection
Phone: 301-405-9134
Homepage:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/EASIA/eastasia.html
Gordon W. Prange Collection
Phone: 301-405-9348
Email: prangebunko@umd.edu
Homepage:
http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange
Sponsored by
ProQuest Information and Learning

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Culture, Literature, Science &Technology:
Research Using Prange
Collection Resources
プランゲ文庫資料にみる
文化・文学と科学技術
September 21, 2006
2:00-5:00pm (Open at 1:30)
2006 年 9 月 21 日 午後 2 時～5 時(1 時半開場)

Special Events Room, McKeldin Library
University of Maryland
於 メリーランド大学マッケルディン図書館
6 階スペシャルイベントルーム

Bunsei Shoin
http://www.bunsei.co.jp/

The Gordon W. Prange Collection
The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the mostcomprehensive collection in the world of print
publications issued in Japan during the immediate
post-World War II years, 1945-1949. The Collection
comprises virtually everything published on all
subjects during this period - books, pamphlets,
newspapers, periodicals, news agency photographs,posters, maps and related archival materials. TheCollection includes:
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18,047 newspaper titles
71,000 book and pamphlet titles
13,799 magazine titles
10,000 news agency photographs
90 posters
640 maps

The contents of the Prange Collection once
constituted the files of the Civil Censorship
Detachment (CCD), an operating unit of the Supreme
Commander of the Allied Powers. (SCAP) Press,
Pictorial and Broadcast Division. Between 1945 and1949, the CCD was responsible for reviewing all
Japanese publications to identify violations of theCode for the Japanese Press. When violations wereidentified by CCD examiners, censorship action wastaken. The Collection contains approximately 600,000
pages of censorship documents.
In addition to Japanese publications, the Collection
also includes significant English-language materials
from the postwar period. The Charles L. KadesPapers, The Justin Williams papers, the British
Commonwealth Occupation News (BCON) andAllied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS)
reports are but a few examples.

ProgramChair:
Professor Marlene Mayo
University of Maryland

Remarks:
Dr. Charles B. Lowry
Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland

Presenters:
Professor Taketoshi Yamamoto
Waseda University
Occupation Period Magazine Database andProposed Newspaper Indexing Project

Professor Kazuhiko Yokote
Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science
CCD Nisei Examiner and Literature at the Time
Professor Kikuo Miyokawa
Hitotsubashi University(Unable to attend)
Paper presented by Amy WasserstromScience & Technology in Early Postwar Japan
Dr. Takeshi Tanikawa
Waseda University
Osamu Tezuka in Occupied Japan

Dr. Tomoko Steen, the Library of Congress
Unit 731 Documents Housedin the Library of Congress

プログラム
司会

マーリン メイヨー
メリーランド大学教授
挨拶チャールズ B. ラウリー
メリーランド大学図書館長

講演者

占領期雑誌データベース
占領期雑誌データベースとデータベースと新聞データベースプロジェクト
新聞データベースプロジェクトのデータベースプロジェクトの開始に開始に向けて山本武利 早稲田大学教授
占領前期の占領前期の科学技術情報：
科学技術情報：プランゲ文庫雑誌
プランゲ文庫雑誌データベース
文庫雑誌データベースによるデータベースによる考察
御代川貴久夫 一橋大学教授（代読エイミー ワッサストロム）

占領と占領と手塚治虫
谷川建司 早稲田大学助教授
二世検閲官と二世検閲官と文学
横手一彦 長崎総合大学教授
議会図書館所蔵 731 部隊原資料
スティーン智子 米国議会図書館