Preliminary Inventory of the James Thomas Watkins papers

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Title: James Thomas Watkins papers
Date (inclusive): 1927-1970
Collection Number: 71040
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 25 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 2 envelopes, 6 microfilm reel, 1 phonorecord, 1 framed painting (12.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, reports, memoranda, orders, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American military administration of Okinawa immediately after World War II. Entire collection also on microfilm (36 reels).
Creator: Watkins, James T. (James Thomas), 1907-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1971.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], James Thomas Watkins Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

American political scientist; lieutenant commander, United States Navy; political affairs officer, United States Military Government, Okinawa, 1945-1946.

Scope and Content of Collection

Writings, reports, memoranda, orders, correspondence, printed matter, and photographs, relating to American military administration of Okinawa immediately after World War II. Entire collection also on microfilm (36 reels).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sound recordings
Military government
Paintings
Okinawa Island (Japan)
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
Ryukyu Islands -- History
United States. Navy

box 1

Bibliography

box 1

Ryukyus indoctrination

box 1

History of Okinawa

box 1

Battle of Okinawa

box 1

POW's and MP's

box 1

Okinawa picture list

box 1

Flack Valley graves photographs

box 1

Museum and Colonel's house - photographs

box 1

Okinawans and others - photographs

box 1

Evacuation, resettlement, home life, orphanages, and rationing - photographs

box 1

Personnel and parties - photographs

box 1

Government - photographs

box 1

Landscape, typhoon, and destruction - photographs

box 1

Post office and special - photographs

box 2

Architecture - photographs

box 2

Agriculture, industry, and labor - photographs

box 2

Education and the arts - photographs

box 2

Enlargements of photographs

box 2

Aerial photographs

box 2

Illustrations from magazines

box 2

Maps

box 2

Clippings of early occupation of Okinawa 1945-1946

box 2

Issues of Kosei Okinawa 1947-1948

 

Clippings on Okinawa

box 2

1947-1948

box 2

1951-1959

box 2

1960-1968

box 3

1949-1951

 

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa, monthly reports

box 3

1945 April-August

box 3

1945 September-1946 February

box 3

1946 March-May

box 3

(final report) 1945 April-1946 July

box 3

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa, team history reports 1945

box 3

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa - special documents 1946

box 3

Okinawa - miscellaneous printed matter, student papers, and letters

box 3

Symposium - apt quotations

box 3

Research declassification

box 3

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa - post office and censorship

box 4

Indexes

box 4

Chronology of U.S. Military Government, Okinawa

box 4

Pre-occupation training of military government officers

box 4

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa, documents 1945-1946

box 4

Morgan memoir on occupation of Okinawa

box 4

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa, minutes of meetings 1945-1946

box 4

U.S. Military Government, Okinawa - planning phase

box 4

U.S. 10th Army Military Government planning history

box 4

Military Government operational plan annex

 

Military government

box 5

Theory, mission and authority

box 5

General organization

box 5

Headquarters organization

box 5

Field organization

box 5

For Ryukyus other than Okinawa

box 5

Organization, Iji bivouac area

box 5

U.S. Army assumption of military government 1946 July

 

Military government personnel

box 5

Staff assignment and station lists 1945-1946

box 5

Detachment rosters and draft rosters

 

Military government personnel

box 6

Enlisted personnel - guard lists and plans of the day

box 6

Demobilization or reassignment from Okinawa

box 6

Miscellany

box 6

General William Crist

box 6

Colonel Charles Murray

box 6

Morale

box 6

Fraternization, circulation and violence

 

Okinawa

box 6

Arts, monuments and religion

box 6

Education

box 6

Military government orders and directives 1945-1946

box 6

Hanna memoir on military government planning stage

 

Okinawa

box 6

Land and population

box 6

Attitudes and psychology of population

box 6

Hanna/Watkins manuscript on land and people of Okinawa

box 7

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript on supply

box 7

Military government documents on supply

box 7

Supply - miscellany

box 7

Political rehabilitation - general and miscellany

box 7

Okinawa government - pre-war

box 7

Okinawa Provisional Advisory Assembly 1946

box 7

Okinawa Advisory Council - notes on meetings with U.S. Military Government Political Affairs Officer

box 7

Okinawa Advisory Council

box 7

Government up to rejection of Murdock Plan

box 7

Implementation of Caldwell Program

box 7

Implementation of Caldwell/Mura Program

 

Implementation of Caldwell Program

box 7

Civilian departments

box 7

Appointment of Chiji (Governor)

box 7

Notes of meetings with Chiji and Cabinet

 

Implementation of Caldwell Program

box 7

Prefectural Assembly

box 7

Consolidation of military government control

box 7

Operation of Shijeka Administration

box 7

Okinawa judiciary

box 7

Government notes for Watkins manuscript

box 8

Watkins manuscript on Okinawa government - first draft

 

Okinawa

box 8

Economic rehabilitation

box 8

Evacuation, resettlement and housing

box 8

Repatriation of Okinawans in Taiwan

 

Okinawa

box 8

Agriculture and fisheries

box 8

Industry

box 8

Monetary economy

box 9

Labor

box 9

Property

 

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript

box 9

Economic rehabilitation

box 9

Public health

box 9

Watkins revision of Lawrence thesis on public health

box 9

Okinawa - public health relief

 

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript

box 9

Disaster relief

box 9

Monetary economy

box 9

Hanna/Watkins manuscript on social rehabilitation

box 10

Okinawa - reversionism 1953

 

Hanna manuscript

box 10

The future of Okinawa

box 10

Appraisal and prospects of Okinawa

box 10

Lessons from experience - notes and correspondence

 

Okinawa

box 10

American relief (post-occupation)

box 10

Future status

box 10

Correspondence with military government enlisted personnel 1948-1959

box 10

Lawrence, William Henry, Jr., "Military Government in Okinawa: Disaster Relief Administration, the Economy and Its Rehabilitation, and Supply," M.A. thesis, Columbia University 1947

box 11

Miscellaneous mimeographed reports, photographs and printed matter, relating to Okinawa 1947-1969

box 12

U.S. Navy Civil Affairs Handbook for Ryukyus 1944

box 12

Miscellaneous military government directives

box 12

Watkins manuscript on political rehabilitation

box 12

Nakasone, Genwa, "From Okinawa to Ryukyu" (in Japanese)

box 13

Military government roster

box 13

CinCPac-CinCPOA report on Okinawa 1944

box 13

Military government reports for Ryukyus 1946 1948

box 13

Photograph negatives

box 14

War diary indexes

 

Daily Okinawan Press Summary issues

box 14

1954

box 15

1951-1953

box 16

1952-1954

box 17

1952-1953

box 17

Chit book of Charles W. Ure, businessman in Shanghai 1917

box 17

Maps, printed matter and miscellany, relating to Japan and world politics 1948-1978

box 18

Reports of U.S. Foreign Service oral examination of Stanford University students 1933-1963

box 18

Correspondence, student papers, printed matter and miscellany, relating to world government and U.S. and world politics 1906-1972

box 18

Press releases and printed matter, relating to the attitudes of various member nations of the United Nations toward the Korean War 1950-1951

box 19

Watkins Family genealogy on 4 x 6 cards

box 19

Pamphlets and articles about Okinawa

box 19

Administration of Occupied Areas, a study guide by Philip H. Taylor and Ralph J. D. Braibanti, Syracuse University Press, pamphlet 1948

box 19

Watkins manuscript and notes on early occupation period

box 20

Watkins notes, war diary

box 20

Okinawa public relations pamphlets

box 20

Ryukyu Islands, a bibliography, Department of the Army pamphlet 1967

box 21

War diary notes

 

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript

box 21

Rehabilitation, political and social

box 21

Supply

box 21

Public health

box 21

Okinawa: "The land and the people"

box 21

Disaster relief administration

box 21

Planning period

box 22

War diary

box 22

Correspondence, Okinawa project

box 22

Hanna manuscript

box 22

Watkins letters to his wife

box 22

Trips

box 22

Ryukyu Project expenses

box 22

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript on monetary economy

box 23

Watkins Okinawa papers catalogue

 

War diary

box 23

Table of contents

box 23

Index

box 23

Pages 116-227

box 23

Watkins desk calendar entries 1945 October 20-1946 July 18

box 23

Lt. Commander Paul H. Skuse's letters to his wife from Okinawa

box 23

Watkins-Skuse correspondence

box 23

Correspondence with Okinawan leaders 1947-

box 23

Correspondence

box 23

Letters of recommendation (U.S. Navy)

box 23

Correspondence with Francis W. Schruben

box 23

Ryukyu study proposal summer 1953

box 23

Writing: Okinawa oddments

box 23

Military government chronology (Okinawa)

box 23

Lawrence/Watkins manuscript on rehabilitation

box 24

Correspondence, general, about Okinawa

box 24

Personnel: Military government alumni

box 24

Navy School of Military Government (class notes)

box 24

Watkins letters from Okinawa to wife and family

box 24

Correspondence with Mr. Iwao Yoshihama

box 25

Reversion

box 25

Correspondence with Sanford Zalburg and Arnold Fisch

box 25

Maps and miscellaneous

box 26

Administrative Subdivisions of Japan, 1946-1947, atlas

box 26

Two maps of Okinawa

box 26

Printed matter on the occupation of Japan, and the League of Nations

box 26

Button given to the delegates of the World Youth Congress held in Geneva in 1936

art rack

1 framed oil painting, 1946, by Japanese artist O-shiro Ko-ya, depicting a scene at Shikiya with Kudaka Island in the distance, commissioned by the officers and men of the U.S. Naval Military Government

reel 1-6

Microfilm reels of Okinawan Papers Deposited by Professor John T. Watkins in the Hoover Institution

envelope mA

3 identical prints of Lyndon B. Johnson undated

envelope B

12 photos of aerial scenes of Kure, Japan, December 1945; Nagasaki, Japan, September and December 1945; and Hiroshima, Japan December 1945. Also include 1 photo of a sunken battleship in Japanese harbor, 1945.