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Faubion Bowers was General MacArthur's secretary during the American Occupation of Japan. His command of the Japanese language allowed him to be in the advanced landing party after the surrender of Japan in World War II. He was interviewed for Columbia University's Oral History Project in 1960. Japanese ) is a language spoken by over 130 million people, mainly in Japan, but also by Japanese emigrant communities around the world. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ...
Bowers became a respected authority on oriental art and culture, writing scholarly monographs on such subjects as Indian dance and Japanese theatre, as well as a definitive two-volume biography of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: ÐлекÑандр Ðиколаевич СкрÑбин, Aleksandr NikolaeviÄ Skrjabin; sometimes transliterated as Skryabin (6 January 1872 – 27 April 1915) was a Russian modernist composer and pianist. ...
He was born 29 Jan 1917 in Miami OK. He was married from 1951 to 1966 to Indian writer Santha Rama Rau. He died in New York City 17 November 1999. Santha Rama Rau (1923–) is best known as a travel writer. ...
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