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Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force 1954-1956

Author
Date
  • 2009
Description
  • Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force, 1954-1956, was self-published by the author in 2009 and features book design by Morgan Ryan-Smith. Following an opening chapter recalling his upbringing and college years in Corvallis, the volume primarily recounts the two years that Coleman spent in Japan as an Air Force Base Contracting Officer. In this, the book specifically focuses on work that the United States armed forces conducted while helping to rehabilitate Japan from the destructive aftermath of the Second World War. Coleman's memoir likewise traces his own maturation as a young man living and working in an environment that was radically different from the Oregon that he had known growing up. As noted in the memoir's introduction, which is written by Chuck Thompson, the book includes "anecdotes of Japan and Cold War Asia [that] bring to life everything from American B-29 spy planes sparring with Soviet MiGs over the Sea of Japan, to explorations of the hidden realm of Japanese bathhouses, hostess bars, hot springs resorts, and off-beat places..."
Biographical Information
  • Ralph Orval Coleman Jr. was born in Corvallis in 1931. The son and namesake of Oregon State's long-serving baseball coach, Ralph Jr. played baseball for his father while an undergraduate at Oregon State College, which he attended from 1949 to 1954. Following the completion of his degree in Business Administration, Coleman was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He spent the next two years in Tokyo, Japan as a Base Contracting Officer. Once discharged from the military, Coleman entered graduate school at the University of Oregon where he earned his masters degree in Communicative Development and Child Psychology. In 1960 he began a doctoral program in Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern University, and he completed his Ph.D. in 1963. Soon after, he began a lengthy career at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon, working as an Associate Professor of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology in the OHSU School of Medicine.
Subject
Work Type
Location
Identifier
  • Tokyo-Blues-2009
Local Collection Name
Local Collection ID
  • MSS TokyoBlues
Publication Place
Institution
Submission Date
  • 11/18/2019
Modified
  • 05/04/2023
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APA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. (19 Apr 2024). Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force 1954-1956 Retrieved from https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/fx71d0164

MLA

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force 1954-1956" Oregon Digital. 19 Apr 2024. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/fx71d0164

Chicago

OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University. "Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force 1954-1956" Oregon Digital. Accessed 2024-04-19. https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/fx71d0164

Wiki

{{cite web | url= https://oregondigital.org/concern/documents/fx71d0164 | title= Tokyo Blues: A Remembrance of Japan and the Far East Air Force 1954-1956 |author= Coleman, Ralph O., Jr., 1931- |accessdate= 2024-04-19 |publisher= }}
Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
1 Coleman, Ralph O., Jr., 1931- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2017021258
2 Japan http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78089021
3 Postwar reconstruction http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004960
4 United States. Air Force http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79126811
5 memoirs http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202559
6 Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5720727/
7 Ralph Coleman Jr. Tokyo Blues Memoir (MSS TokyoBlues) http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/localCollectionName/mss_tokyoblues
8 Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5720727/
9 Oregon State University http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80017721

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