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Title: Theodore Cohen Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1945-1980
Collection number: 597
Creator:
Cohen, Theodore, 1918-
Extent:
5 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Theodore Cohen (1918-1983) was the civilian chief of the Labor Division for the American Occupation of Japan (1946), and the
Adviser on Economic Programs to the chief of the Economic and Scientific Division (1947). In 1950, he went in to private business
with a Canadian import company in Japan. The collection consists mostly of material used in the preparation of his book,
Remaking Japan: the American Occupation as New Deal, published in 1987.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
[Identification of item], Theodore Cohen Papers (Collection 597). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4787163
Theodore Cohen was born in New York City in 1918. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1938 and taught history
there from 1939 to 1940. He then went to work for military intelligence in the Office of Strategic Services from 1941-1944;
and then for military government planning in the Foreign Economic Administration from 1944 to 1945. With the end of World
War II, he joined the American Occupation of Japan as the civilian chief of the Labor Division in 1946, and helped push through
important labor reform. In 1947, he was promoted to Adviser on Economic Programs to the chief of the Economic and Scientific
Division. In 1950, he left the American Occupation administration and went in to private business with a Canadian import company
in Japan until 1973. He died on December 21, 1983.
Consists mostly of material used in the preparation of his book,
Remaking Japan: the American Occupation as New Deal, published in 1987.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952--Archival resources.