Alfred Rodman Hussey papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Correspondence; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers; Prisons; Civil rights; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers. Government Section; Prostitution; Labor; United States; Economic conditions; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Japan; Social conditions; Allied Powers (1919- ); Japan. Kokkai; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, orders, reports, offical and unofficial policy papers, draft legislation, drafts of writings, clippings, and printed matter relating to Hussey's work with the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) Government Section during the Allied occupation of Japan following World War II and to the efforts of the Allies to reorganize Japanese government and society.  The files contain detailed information on nearly every aspect of postwar Japan, especially the drafting of the Japanese constitution (Kenpō), the reorganization of the Diet (Kokkai), and policy proposals in the areas of labor, civil rights, the economy, labor, prostitution, and the Imperial household.  Also includes some personal papers and correspondence of Hussey relating to his interests in civil rights and in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and his various writings.

Correspondents include George Atcheson, Roger N. Baldwin, McGeorge Bundy, James F. Byrnes, Charles Louis Kades, Douglas MacArthur, Milo Rowell, Ray Sakakibara, Robert Edward Ward, Courtney Whitney, and Japanese government officials.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm of originals in the Asia Library, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

University of Michigan, Asia Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Purchase, 1977.

Lawyer and government official.  Born 1902.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010105

Reel list available in the Library of Congress; finding aid and document checklist on reel 1.