Foreign Correspondents in Japan. Charles Foreign Corresponden

       Acknowledgments

      Compiling a book covering more than fifty years of history requires a great deal of cooperation from a large number of people. It is impossible to list everyone, but our thanks go to all FCCJ members, past and present, who contributed in some way to this book, even if by no more than mentioning a name, an event, or a popular song from days gone by.

      More specifically, in addition to the key people mentioned in the Preface-Day Inoshita, Jack Russell, Swadesh DeRoy, Bob Neff, Pat Killen, Kay Tateishi, and Frank Gibney, who incidentally provided interactive support for each other-we would like to thank the following people for their contributions.

      Former presidents of the FCCJ who responded to our queries and to our requests for comments on their administrations, anecdotes, photos, and other materials are Rutherford M. Poats, Earnest Hoberecht, John Rich, John Roderick, Lee Chia, Buddy Cohen, Al Kaff, Max Desfor, Al Cullison, Bruce Dunning, Bill Shinn, Mike Tharp, Naoaki Usui, Andrew Horvat, Lew Simons, Pierre Brisard, Mack Chrysler, Ken Ishii, David Powers, Bruce MacDonell, Peter McGill, and Jim Lagier. Al Cullison and Bruce Dunning also reviewed manuscripts and others, especially AI Kaff, provided a lode of anecdotes and photos.

      Members with long memories who contributed to the book are Ian Mutsu, Ray Falk, Ron Yates, Henry Scott-Stokes, Jean Pearce, Corky Alexander, Hal Drake, Roger Shreffler, Gregory Clark, Boye De Mente, Rudolph Voll, John Brady, Bob Kirschenbaum, George Purdy, Ernest Salomon, Ken Urushibara, and Shig Fujita. Former members who made important contributions are Ed Hoffman, Carl Mydans, Jim Colligan, Bob Miller, Denis Warner, Ed White, Richard Hanson, and Sam Jones, a life member who unfortunately died in early 1998 before he could see the result of his efforts. Deserving special mention is Don Kirk, for his contribution on the Club's baseball team, the Alley Cats.

      And former staff who saw much of it happen and deserve our special thanks for corroborating and providing much interesting detail are Mary Ushijima, Kotaro Washida, Mr. Ling, and the late Jimmy Horikawa, who died in 1997. Present staff, too, assisted greatly in getting the materials together for this endeavor. The office, library, and front desk staff in general, under the direction of our general manager, Kenji Katayama, were positive in their assistance. More specifically, Nobuyoshi Yamada, a thirty-eight-year veteran, should be noted for his sharp memory and research services, and Jonathan Wentworth for facilitating communications by converting files from Mac versions into Windows versions and vice versa.

      Finally, we would like to acknowledge the assistance of Susan Pompian, the support of the Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company, and the invaluable help of Winston Priest, which enabled us to bring this book to successful completion.