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Engaging Japan: An American Naval Officer's Relationship with Japan during the Cold War

Engaging Japan: An American Naval Officer's Relationship with Japan during the Cold War 77 Engaging Japan: An American Naval Officer ’s Relationship with Japan during the Cold War James E. Auer Vanderbilt University Early Years: From Sasebo to the Tokyo Olympics It all started on 2 June 1963, the day I graduated from Marquette Univer- sity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That same day, I was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. Although ensigns are lowest in the pecking order of naval officers, I got my first choice of duty, a coastal minesweeper homeported in Sasebo, Japan. I knew nothing of Japan, but my junior and senior year Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps instruc- tor convinced me that small ship duty (“where you will immediately be a department head”) was preferable to serving on an aircraft carrier (“where you will be the assistant Coca Cola procurement officer”). Since I was single, I also desired to test the World War I Navy recruiting slo- gan, “Join the Navy and See the World!” Sasebo was the most remote place where the Navy based ships, and Japan sounded exciting. Full of misperceptions and false expectations, I departed from Mil- waukee for Sasebo via six weeks’ training in firefighting, communica- tions, and cryptography in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of American-East Asian Relations Brill

Engaging Japan: An American Naval Officer's Relationship with Japan during the Cold War

Journal of American-East Asian Relations , Volume 15 (1-2): 77 – Jan 1, 2008

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Brill
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1058-3947
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1876-5610
DOI
10.1163/187656108793645824
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77 Engaging Japan: An American Naval Officer ’s Relationship with Japan during the Cold War James E. Auer Vanderbilt University Early Years: From Sasebo to the Tokyo Olympics It all started on 2 June 1963, the day I graduated from Marquette Univer- sity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. That same day, I was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. Although ensigns are lowest in the pecking order of naval officers, I got my first choice of duty, a coastal minesweeper homeported in Sasebo, Japan. I knew nothing of Japan, but my junior and senior year Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps instruc- tor convinced me that small ship duty (“where you will immediately be a department head”) was preferable to serving on an aircraft carrier (“where you will be the assistant Coca Cola procurement officer”). Since I was single, I also desired to test the World War I Navy recruiting slo- gan, “Join the Navy and See the World!” Sasebo was the most remote place where the Navy based ships, and Japan sounded exciting. Full of misperceptions and false expectations, I departed from Mil- waukee for Sasebo via six weeks’ training in firefighting, communica- tions, and cryptography in

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Published: Jan 1, 2008

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