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Minshū Daigaku

Minshū Daigaku [Popular University], Vol. 2, No. 6, November 1947

“Visiting a Farm without Soil” is a journalist’s report on his visit to the Chōfu hydroponic farming facility. He provided a detailed description of the farming system in response to requests from the magazine’s readers, who were unable to find this information elsewhere.

 

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Each year, the staff of Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Maryland creates exhibits that showcase materials from the University's collections. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the official naming of the Gordon W. Prange Collection, this year's featured exhibit is Crossing the Divide: An American Dream Made in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952.  The corresponding physical exhibit of Crossing the Divide will be on display in the Maryland Room Gallery in Hornbake Library North, University of Maryland, through July 2019.

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The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949.  It is located in Hornbake Library North on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus.

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