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to the book exhibit: The Russian Impact on Japan: Building the Japanese Collec8ons at USC. It is a joint program organized with Peter Berton, Dis?nguished Professor Emeritus of the School of Interna?onal Rela?ons.

This special exhibit features books about Russo-Japan rela?ons from the early nineteenth through the twenty-rst centuries, specically focusing on the Allied Occupa?on Period in Japan (1945-1952). During this period, Professors Berton, Langer, and Swearingen conducted research on Soviet inuence on Japanese leV-wing movements. The books they acquired for their research eventually became the nucleus of the USC Japanese Collec?on.

The display starts with a picture of Professor Berton with senior diplomats, taken at the Ministry of Foreign Aairs in Japan in 1951. Books from the Occupa?on Era are laid out along the table in four categories: foreign aairs, Russian experiences, women writers, and leVist movements.

On this side are books about leVist movements during the Occupa?on Era. On the other side are books wri]en by the Japanese prisoners of war about their experiences in Siberia.

At the other end of the table are books wri]en by women writers such as Miyamoto Yuriko and Hayashi Fumiko .

This brown paper contains a three-volume woodblock print, Hokuetsu seppu (1836). The package was signed and sent by the novelist, Hayashi Fumiko ( ) to Professor Paul Langer (), who was working in the Civil Censorship Detachment (CCD) during the U.S. Occupa?on of Japan.

Shown here are two examples of Professor Langers ex-libris book stamps. On the leV the stamp reads (Rangaa zsho), and on the right (Ranga zsho).

In the forefront is Nihon no akai hata (1953), a Japanese transla?on of Red Flag in Japan, wri]en by Professors Swearingen and Langer in 1952. In the background is the English original signed by the authors for Professor Berton welcoming him to their research team in 1952.

A selec?on of works from 1951 to 2000 by Professors Berton, Langer, and Swearingen is displayed here. Included are Manchuria, an annotated bibliography on Manchuria, compiled by Professor Berton when he was a graduate student at Columbia University and also working at the Library of Congress; a Japanese transla?on of his Masters thesis, Nichi-Ro rydo mondai = The Russo-Japanese Boundary 1850-1875; and an online print out of his ar?cle in Japan Policy Research Ins8tute Working Paper (2000). Also included are Japan: Yesterday and Today by Professor Langer, who studied Japanese literature at the Sorbonne and the University of Tokyo, and the Japanese transla?on of The World of Communism by Professor Swearingen.

Here are library resources on Japanese leV-wing movements: Akahata and Zenei (Japanese Communist Party publica?ons); Kan jh and Chian framu (journals on na?onal security).

Collec?ons of wri?ngs by Japanese socialist thinkers and ac?vists from the late nineteenth century through the postwar era are displayed here. The selected works are by Ktoku Shsui , Sakai Toshihiko , Kawakami Hajime , Yamakawa Hitoshi , sugi Sakae , and Arahata Kanson .

The Russian envoy Nikolai Rezanovs a]empt to nego?ate a commercial treaty with Japan in 1804 marks the beginning of Russo-Japanese rela?ons. This signicant event is recorded in several documents, including Kankai ibun (1807). Displayed on the table is a reproduc?on of an 1808 Japanese transla?on of a map of Russia, brought by the Rezanov delega?on.

Thank you for visi?ng the book exhibit. I hope you enjoyed it. For more informa?on and the complete list of exhibited materials, please visit: h]p:// dornsife.usc.edu/peterberton/.