Register of the Nagura Yuichi papers
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Title: Nagura Yuichi papers
Date (inclusive): 1992-2021
Collection Number: 2021C1
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Japanese
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box, digital media
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: A historian and researcher, the Nagura Yuichi papers contains interviews and oral and written personal histories of the POWs
and Japan's first POW camp.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Nagura Yuichi papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Historian and researcher, focusing on materials related to Allied Forces' POWs in Japan and Shigetsugu Tsuneishi, who headed
Radio Tokyo.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains interviews and oral and written personal histories of the POWs and Ikeda Norizane (of the English
language propaganda radio series, Zero Hour), as well as educational material on the Zentsūji, the WWII POW camp in Japan.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan
Prisoners of war -- Japan
Radio in propaganda
Oral histories
box 1, folder 1
横浜・山手250番館：1942年1月、マキン島から来た捕虜たちの記録 (Yokohama Yamate House No. 250: The Record of POWs from Makin Island, January 1942)
2014
box 1, folder 2
太平洋戦争初の捕虜収容所善通寺の記録 (Japan's First POW Camp in WWII: Zentsuji)
2011
box 1, folder 3
Japan's First POW Camp in WWII: Zentsuji: The Recollection of John M. Jones, one of the first and last internees and his fellow
POWs
2012
box 1, folder 4
駿河台分室物語：日本陸軍の秘密戦 , 池田徳眞著(BUNKA Camp Story: Secret War of the Japanese Army by Ikeda Norizane)
2015
box 1, folder 5
駿河台分室物語：対米謀略放送『日の丸アワー」の記録 , 池田徳眞著(Surugadai Annex Station: Record of Anti-US Conspiracy Broadcasting Program "Hinomaru Hour"
by Ikeda Norizane)
2015
box 1, folder 6
長野県・満島収容所：捕虜生活と解放の記録, 名倉有一編 (Mitsushima POW Camp in Nagano Prefecture: Record of their POW Life and Releases, Compiled by
Yagura Yūichi)
2013
box 1, folder 7
Detailed inventory list
2020
box 1, folder 8
「善通寺俘虜収容所」ハンドブック, 名倉有一編 (Zentsuji POW Camp Handbook, edited by Nagura Yūichi)
2021
Digital materials
1992-2016, undated
Conditions Governing Access
Digital materials are not available until processed. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more
information.
Scope and Contents
Contains 4 optical disks and 2 flash drives.
box MC34
DVD: 恒石重嗣氏の回想：「ウィリアムズの放送拒否事件』Tsuneishi Shigetsugu's Interview on William's refusal to broadcast
1996 March 30
box MC34
DVD: 池田徳眞氏の回想：「ウィリアムズの放送拒否事件』Ikeda Norizane's Interview on William's refusal to broadcast
1992 June 13
box MC34
DVD: 谷山樹三郎元陸軍大尉の回想：「ウィリアムズの放送拒否事件』陸軍中野学校 Major Taniyama Juzaburo's Interview on William's refusal to broadcast and Nakano
School of the Imperial Japanese Army
2003 April 19
box MC34
DVD:『父、池田徳眞の思い出』、池田百合子 (Memories of My Father, Ikeda Norizane by Ikeda Yuriko)
2016 May 14
box HD21
USB flash drive, including summary transcriptions of Tsuneishi, Ikeda, and Taniyama interviews
undated
box HD21
USB flash drive of the Zentsūji POW camp handbook
2021
