American Professors on Postwar Japan

LAST MARCH the Universities Committee on Postwar International Problems queried its fifty-two faculty committees on the problem of postwar Japan. The committees form no polling “sample”; the questionnaire was no “poll.” But just because of the nature of the process, the questions probed down to details in a way that no public opinion poll could. The answers provide suggestive indications of thought about Postwar Japan among a Profession that often has more than average influence. Allan B. Cole, Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College, corners naturally by his interest in American relations with the Far East. Born in Kobe, he spent most of his early years in China and for ten years has written in the field of Oriental relations

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