Engineering; Engineers; Education; Universities and colleges; College students; College teachers; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Nihon Gakujutsu Kaigi; Technology; Scientists; Industries; Research; Laboratories; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers;...
The appendices and exhibits from the report of the engineering education mission to Japan, 1951 July 5 to August 26. It consists of: Appendix A: Institute for Engineering Education; Appendix B: Program of the Mission on Engineering Education;...
Diaries; Autobiography; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers; Japan; Sarasohn, Homer, 1916-2001; Industrial management; Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo (Japan); Telecommunication; Communication; Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931; Management;...
The diary and memoirs of Frank Polkinghorn's two years in Japan as director of the Research and Development Division of the Civil Communications Section (CCS) of the Supreme Command of Allied Powers (SCAP). It consists of: the Preface; Chapter 1:...
Government publications; Handbooks, manuals, etc.; United States. Army; Japan; Education; Youth; Research; Religious institutions; Propaganda; Schools; Education - Curricula; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Bibliography
A study on education in Japan prepared for the military government division of the Office of the Provost Marshal General by the research and analysis branch of the Office of Strategic Services. The handbook consists of: the Importance of the...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Management; World War II; Japan; Industrial management; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900-1993; Juran, J. M. (Joseph M.), 1904-2008; Sarasohn, Homer, 1916-2001;...
Kenneth Hopper's article from the September 1985 issue of Quality Progress discussing Japan's new industrial management based on Japanese traditions and American ideals from practicing American industrial managers.
Speeches, addresses, etc.; Telecommunication; Universities and colleges; Telephone; Social classes; College students; Lectures and lecturing; Engineers; College teachers; Research; Letters
Frank Polkinghorn's talk on the improvement of telecommunications engineering education in Japan and the relationship between social education and the practice of engineering. It includes an excerpt from a 1957 letter by a distinguished Japanese...
Frank Polkinghorn's remarks on engineering economics in which he discusses principles and terms such as: capital, depreciation, maintenance, taxes, operation, annual charges, accounting, and cost studies.
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Japan; Factories; Interpersonal relations; Management; Industries; Authorship; Books; University of Michigan; Executives; Kondō, Y. (Yoshio), 1924-; Supervisors, Industrial; Sumitomo Denki...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying that Mr. S. Nagasaki has been very kind in translating two of Inoue's articles for him and sharing in discussion. He requests that Inoue write about his experience...
Frank Polkinghorn discusses research, manufacturing, merchandising, stability, operation, maintenance, appearance, cost, and performance during his talk on engineering in industry. Page 1 contains an original handwritten notion on the top, right...
Frank Polkinghorn's talk to the scientists of the second United States scientific mission to Japan delivered at the Dai Ichi Building on 1948 November 29. The talk covers topics such as: the Ministry of Communications, private research...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Letters; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Sumitomo Group; Itineraries; Books; Authorship; Business enterprises; Industries; Japan; Management; American Productivity Center; Periodicals; Résumés (Employment); Hopper, W. J. (William...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., thanking him and the Sumitomo company. Hopper says his book on good American companies and Japanese industry is in an advanced stage. He says Japanese managers are engaging...
Telecommunication; Engineers; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Telephone systems; Telephone; Business enterprises; Census; College students
Frank Polkinghorn's talk to undergraduate engineers on the various aspects of the communication system in Japan and the telephone system in the United States.
United States. Army Air Forces; Government publications; United States. Army Air Forces. Air Transport Command; Travel; Airplanes; Islands of the Pacific; Southeast Asia; Survival and emergency equipment; Maps; Life rafts; Parachutes
The “Passenger Guide” of the Army Air Forces Air Transport Command Pacific Division. It consists of: the Foreward; Cabin Briefing; Over-Water Briefing; General Notes on Life Raft; Parachute Briefing; Medical Briefing; Customs Information;...
Communication; Engineers; Engineering; Japan; Telephone; United States; Wood poles; Research; Profit; Telephone systems; Telegraph; Business enterprises; Census; College students
A reprint of Frank Polkinghorn's work from the volume 38, number 10, October 1950 issue of the Electrical Review (Denki Hyoron) titled, "A Talk to Future Communications Engineers." Frank Polkinghorn, director of the Research & Development...
B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., writes Mr. K. Hopper with the thoughts that crossed his mind from reading Hopper's essay published in the 1979 December 9 edition of the Japan Times. Inoue shares that the Japanese remain far more...
Engineers; Engineering; Japan; Executives; Costs, Industrial; Production (Economic theory); Industries; Factories; Machinery; Universities and colleges; College teachers; College students; Economics; Telephone systems; Manufacturing processes;...
Frank Polkinghorn's talk on the need to improve the efficiency of quality of production by Japanese engineers delivered before the annual meeting of the Institute of Electrical Communication Engineers at Tokyo University on 1949 March 7. It...
Telecommunication; Industrial management; Engineers; Radar; Ionosphere; Central Radio Propagation Laboratory (U.S.); Armed Forces - Officers
Frank Polkinghorn's briefing to Generals Church and Danforth on the Research and Development Division's objective to see that the necessary telecommunications knowledge, equipment and systems are available when needed for the expansion or...
Kenneth Hopper writes Mr. B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., saying he is both grateful and overwhelmed at the amount of work Inoue and Mr. Takezawa have put into their answer. He shares that Professor Tsurumi regards such letters and...
Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Letters; Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand), 1909-2005; Industries; Labor productivity; Quality control; Quality circles; Executives; Authorship; Books; Songs; Music; Sumitomo Group
In an English translation of B. Inoue's letter to Mr. Hopper, dated 1981 August 21, Inoue refers to a piece in Peter Drucker's work, "The Practice of Management" that says that productivity greatly increases when workers are given responsibility...
Inoue, Bunzaemon, 1906-; Hopper, Kenneth, 1926-; Letters; Sumitomo Denki Kōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha; Management; Factories; World War II; Production (Economic theory); Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers; Time study; Motion study; Line and staff...
B. Inoue, of Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., writes Mr. K. Hopper, saying that most of the SEI (Sumitomo Electric Industries) factories were destroyed by bombs during World War II and discusses why he believes the Japanese lost the war with the...
