Maryland and the National Diet Library of Japan
Join Forces to Preserve Post-War History

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Housed in McKeldin Library is a vast and rare collection of Japanese print publications -- in fact, nearly 20 million pages of books, magazines, and newspapers dating from the early years of the Occupation of Japan, 1945-49. Due to the influence and insight of Gordon W. Prange, author of Tora, Tora, Tora, history professor at Maryland, and chief of General Douglas MacArthur's Historical Section in post-war Japan, the collection was declassified and shipped to Maryland in 1950. In 1978, the collection was named in Prange's honor by the University of Maryland Board of Regents. The University of Maryland and the National Diet Library of Japan are long-time partners working to preserve this priceless collection. With the magazines and newspapers complete, they will now team up to preserve the 71,000 books in the collection. MoreÒ

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