Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur

male, deceased (1964)
United States Army Chief of Staff, Field Marshal, American military personnel of World War II, Pacific Theater, American military, Jean Marie Faircloth…In war, there is no substitute for victo, Military history of Japan, American, AmericanpeopleinJapan
Jean Marie Faircloth (December 28, 1898 in Nashville, Tennessee - January 22, 2000), was a socialite and philanthropist. After attending...

Bonner Fellers

male, deceased (1973)
American military personnel of World War II, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Herbert Bix, AmericanpeopleinJapan, occupied Japan, Military history of Japan…American
Bonner Frank Fellers, during World War II, was a Colonel who served as the USA military attaché to Cairo, Egypt. Adolph Hitler called Feller "our g...
Iva Toguri D'Aquino

Iva Toguri D'Aquino

female, deceased (2006)
Japanese-American relations, Propaganda examples, United States Attorney's Office, United States Attorney, AmericanpeopleinJapan, Propagandist…Recipient of American presidential pardons, Japanese American
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American, was most identified with "Tokyo Rose", a generic name given by Allied forces in the South Pacific during...
Joseph Grew

Joseph Grew

male, deceased (1965)
Ambassador of the United States, AmericanpeopleinJapan, Attack on Pearl Harbor, From Boston, Foreign Service, Groton School alumni…United States Ambassador to Japan, ambassador to Japan
Joseph Clark Grew was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 27, 1880. He served as the U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1920–1921 and ambassador to Sw...

James Glynn

male, deceased (1871)
Columbus, dutch, mexican-american war, United States Navy officer, AmericanpeopleinJapan, uss vincennes
James Glynn (1800-1871) was a U.S. Navy officer who in 1848 distinguished himself by being the first American to negotiate successfully with the...
Matthew C. Perry

Matthew C. Perry

male, deceased (1858)
Matthew Calbraith Perry, U.S. NAVY, AmericanpeopleinJapan, commodore, United States Navy, Edo period…Irish-American in the military
Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 - March 4, 1858) was the Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the...
Beate Sirota

Beate Sirota

female, 85 years old
scap, American expatriate in Japan, AmericanpeopleinJapan, Jewish person, Imperial Academy of Music, ukrainian…Constitution of Japan, Japan Society, American School in Japan, researcher on Japan
Beate Sirota Gordon (born in Vienna, October 25, 1924), former Performing Arts Director of the Japan Society; a member of the team that worked...
Dave Spector

Dave Spector

male, 55 years old
"The Japanese Version", Jewish person, sell-out, AmericanpeopleinJapan, foreign celebrity, Shukan Bunshun…American expatriate in Japan, American, American Jew, Jewish American
Dave Spector (デーブ・スペクター born in Chicago, Illinois) is one of the more visible "foreign celebrities" (gaijin tarento) in Japan. He is a Jewish Americ...
Edwin O. Reischauer

Edwin O. Reischauer

male, deceased (1990)
Oberlin College alumni, East Asia, AmericanpeopleinJapan, historian, korean, American…American expatriate in Japan
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was the leading U.S. educator and noted scholar of the history and culture of Japan, and of East Asia. From 1961–66, he...
Charles T. McDowell

Charles T. McDowell

male, deceased (2007)
American military personnel of World War II, Texas A&M University alumni, Academic, American, AmericanpeopleinJapan, American academic…Military history of Japan
Charles Taylor McDowell (November 23, 1921 - July 8, 2007) is professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern...