Faubion bowers biography

          Faubion Bowers, an American linguist, critic and writer on the arts who helped preserve Kabuki, the popular drama of Japan, when occupation authorities sought.

        1. Faubion Bowers () was born in Miami, Oklahoma, and raised in Tulsa.
        2. Faubion Bowers was an American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre.
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        4. Faubion Bowers was born in Miami, Okla., on January 29, , and finished high school in Tulsa in He attended the University of Oklahoma for two years.

          5. Faubion Bowers was an American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre.!

          Faubion Bowers

          With GEN Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo, 1946

          A graduate of Columbia University ('35) and Juilliard Graduate School of Music ('39), Bowers had taught at Hosei University in Tokyo (1940-41), and was tapped for Japanese language training at the Presidio, San Francisco and Camp Savage.

          Posted to ATIS, Brisbane, he served in the Pacific theater and, at war's end, was the interpreter for the Advance Party, which landed at Atsugi airfield on 28 Aug 45. As personal interpreter for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and as the general's aide-de-camp (1946-48), he lived at the American Embassy with the MacArthur family, and served as interpreter at the initial meeting of MacArthur with the Emperor.

          While acting as censor of the Japanese theater from 1948-49, he became its sponsor; and in the process gained renown as the savior of the kabuki theater. He was awarded the Bronze Star (1944) and Oak Leaf Cluster (1945), and was decorated by the Emperor