The Pacific Basin Institute produced a 10-part documentary series, The Pacific Century, in 1993. This collection contains digitized video of oral histories from Part 5, "Reinventing Japan," which focuses on post-World War II Japan. Key figures of the American occupation government were interviewed about their contributions and views. Subjects cover Communism; women's rights; occupation of Japan; Japanese history, politics and government, and social conditions in 1945. Interviews include Beate and Joseph Gordon, Faubion Bowers, Osborne Hague, Richard Poole, and Theodore McNelly.

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