[KS] US military archives on tourism

[RogerALewis at aol.com]

I do not know if this work would fit into your topic but a book dealer in  
the Washington DC area advertises the following item:
 
 
Repatriation From 25 September 1945 to 31 December 1945
by  Gane, William J.
signed
Presumed First Edition/first printing. Wraps.  United States Army Military 
Government in Korea, Foreign Affairs Section, Seoul,  Korea (1946) 
Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Ink notation  on front 
cover. Signed on free end paper. Cover has some wear and signing. Spine  torn 
at top and bottom. Some page discoloration. 97, 66 p. Includes  
illustrations. Fold-out plates. Number 00016 on front cover. Word "Restricted"  written 
in ink at top of front cover. This work, while extremely rare, has been  
widely quoted in the literature about repatriation from Japan to Korea and 
about  Korean residents status in Japan after the liberation of Korea. Seven 
copies,  including two at the Library of Congress, are held by libraries. It is 
not clear  that any copies, other than this one, is in private hands. The 
author continued  to specialize in Far Eastern affairs, and earned a 
Doctorate from Northwestern  University in 1951. His dissertation was entitled 
"Foreign Affairs of South  Korea, August 1945 to August 1950". Related Master's 
thesis: "Repatriation in  Korea", by William J. Gane. M.A. in Political 
Science, Northwestern University,  1950. William Gane died in 1959, on his 39th 
birthday, in an aircraft accident  along with his brother Charles, in 
Alberta, Canada. He is buried at Arlington  Cemetery in Drexel Hills, PA (Hillview 
Lot 928). This work describes the work of  a combined United States Army 
effort to repatriate most of the Japanese in Korea  back to Japan and to bring 
back to Korea nearly 1, 000, 000 Koreans in the brief  span of three and 
one-half months. William Gane was the first person assigned to  the Displaced 
Persons Division. The first reasonably accurate figure reported to  the 
Military Government of Korea by the Foreign Affairs Section place a total of  6, 
200, 000 peopled to be handled as displaced persons. Movements across the  
Thirty-eighth were noted. This is an account of an organized mass movement of 
 people that rivals any other major migration in world history, including 
the  movement of the Helvici reported by Caesar, and those caused by Attila 
the Hun  and Genghis Khan. 

The dealer is Ground Zero Books, Ltd. and their website is. 
_www.groundzerobooksltd.com_ (http://www.groundzerobooksltd.com) 
 
Roger
 
 
In a message dated 11/20/2011 9:30:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
hyungpai at eastasian.ucsb.edu writes:



Dear members,
I am interested in locating US military archives ( preferably from the  
Occupation and Korean War period and after) and primary sources on the topic  
of travel and tourism.
Currently, I am trying to track down tourist brochures, postcards,  
guidebooks as well travelogues either on Korea or Japan. After the fall of the  
Japanese empire, I have found out that many of the former JTB offices and  
Korean travel agencies were working closely with military bureaus to promote  
cultural destinations for R and R for the troops on leave. Was their a  
centralized tourist office/liason ( coordinating Pacific destinations) or did  the 
USO organize these activities? Where did they go - Kyongju, Atami, Nikko,  
Yokohama? Did they take-over former Japanese station hotels like the Chosen 
or  Bando, hot springs resorts, and build new leisure facilities ( gold 
courses? )  besides all the girly bars, geisha houses ( seen in many old 
Hollywood Movies)  and brothels that we know about ( I know the Walker Hill hotel 
complex was  part of this kind of joint-venture with American Airlines corp 
in the  1960s) 
But, so far, I have only found sporadic photos and brochures. 
I will be in the DC area in early December, are there sources at the LOC  ? 
 I have never worked with US military archives and I do not even  know 
where to start. Any advice is welcome. 




 
 
 
 
 
Hyung Il Pai
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East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Department, University of  
California, Santa Barbara, HSSB Building
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