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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

SHIMADA, Shigetaro (Rear Admiral) – Defense Document 2888 [3563]: IMTFE, Sworn Deposition of NIIJIMA, Nobuo, 19 November 1947; Defense Document 2892 [3565]: IMTFE, Sworn Deposition of SHIMADA, Shigeraro, 2 December 1947; [C.R. 34698]: typescript of questionnaire; Japanese curriculum vitae and translation; Doc. 7512, File 36 [124]: Report, 20 February 1946; Doc. No. 2498-B [1128-A]: Excerpts from Interrogation of Shigetaro SHIMADA on 23 January 1946; Defense Document 622-B-1 [3573]: Excerpt from Interrogation of Admiral Shigetaro SHIMADA, 14 March 1946; Defense Document 2964 [3718]: Sworn Deposition of SHIMADA, 8 January 1948; notes; typescript of Interrogation of Admiral SHIMADA, Shigetaro, 16-18, 21-23, 25, 29-31 January, 1, 5-6, 8 February, 14 March 194

 File — Container: Box 23

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the "historian advisors" to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948.

The files contain excerpts of official documents, documents and DeMartino's handwritten notes. Excerpts from the Diary of Marquis Kōichi Kido are present in each file, as if DeMartino was using Kido's notes as a guide to the research he was working on. There are also many excerpts from Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States Japan: 1931-1941, Washinton: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943, 2 v.



The collection was donated to the Law Library in the Summer of 2017. Prof. Jamie Sedwick of Acadia University in Nova Scotia contacted the Special Collections Department to alert us of the existence of the papers and asked if we were interested in them. The library immediately contacted Ms. Kathleen O’Shea, Mr. DeMartino's wife and after some negotiations the papers arrive to Charlottesville in September of 2017.

Dates

  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1936 - 1948

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English and Japanese

Extent

From the Collection: 14 Cubic Feet (34 archival boxes, plus some oversized items.)

Repository Details

Part of the Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
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