This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy, and an explanation of why in Japan library services were relatively backward despite exceptionally high literacy and very well-developed publishing industry and retail book trade.
This book examines US-influenced initiatives to improve library services during the Allied Occupation of post-surrender Japan and looks at history of funding libraries abroad as a tool of cultural diplomacy, and an explanation of why in Japan library services were relatively backward despite exceptionally high literacy and very well-developed publishing industry and retail book trade.
Contents Illustrations Preface 1 Introduction 2 Function and Structure 3 Cultural Contexts and Political Choices. 4 The California County Library System 5 Libraries in Diplomacy 6 Libraries in Japan and the Allied Occupation 7 CIE Information centers 8 The Education Mission, 1946 9 Philip Keeney and his Plan 10 National Diet Library 11 The Library Law of 1950 12 Don Brown's Initiative 13 Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio 14 The Japan Library School 15 Afterwards 16 Summary and Retrospect Acknowledgments Appendix: Keeney's Plan Bibliography Index
Contents Illustrations Preface 1 Introduction 2 Function and Structure 3 Cultural Contexts and Political Choices. 4 The California County Library System 5 Libraries in Diplomacy 6 Libraries in Japan and the Allied Occupation 7 CIE Information centers 8 The Education Mission, 1946 9 Philip Keeney and his Plan 10 National Diet Library 11 The Library Law of 1950 12 Don Brown's Initiative 13 Gitler, Kiyooka and Keio 14 The Japan Library School 15 Afterwards 16 Summary and Retrospect Acknowledgments Appendix: Keeney's Plan Bibliography Index
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