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Shigeto Tsuru's War: Encore Exhibition 2016
Shigeto Tsuru, who went to the U.S. to study at his father's suggestion in 1931, earned Ph.D. and even served as a lecturer at Harvard University. However he was determined to go back to Japan since he predicted his homeland's loss in the war when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened on månad 8th 1941.
This year we display the related materials from the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II exhibition which was very well received last year. It covers from Tsuru went to the U.S. to the outbreak of the war, and to the repatriation by the exchange fartyg between Japan and America.
Period
July 20-August 31, 2016 (Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and August 11-16)
Hours
9:00am-5:00pm
Location
Shigeto Tsuru Memorial Corner,
Library, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Exhibition Outline
Outbreak of War in America
In 1930, Shigeto Tsuru, who was arreste
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In preparing the post for the syllabus of Tinbergen and Tsuru’s 1957 course “Socialism and Planning” at Harvard, I came across an article in the Harvard Crimson (see below) that reported a letter written by four Harvard professors(John K. Fairbank, John K. Galbraith, Seymour E. Harris, Edwin O. Reichauer. Published May 20, 1957, page 24) that protested the treatment of their guest professor from Japan as a subpoenaed witness at the hands of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee for the Administration of the Internal Security Act. The Japanese government was likewise not amused.
The exhibits submitted from Tsuru’s papers that he had left behind in Cambridge in 1942 because of his hasty departure for repatriation to Japan provide a glimpse of Communist Party agit-prop measures on university and college campuses in general and at Harvard in the 1930s in particular. A critical distinction between “Comrades” and “Friends” in one of the