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- Michigan State University freshman Mari Nord talks about her Japanese and Norwegian heritage, her professor father and businesswoman mother, living in East Lansing, and her great love for traveling. Nord describes Japanese culture, the Japanese education system, and learning the language while in nursery school. She says that she feels torn between Japanese and American culture and gets along best at MSU with international students. She talks about adjusting to college life, majoring in veterinary medicine, and hoping to work with endangered species and says that she does not simply want to have a job and family if that means settling down in one place.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- George Bush answers questions about possible a summit with Gorbachev, international meetings on cleaning up the environment, Gorbachev's popularity in Europe, the role of Solidarity, interference in the internal affairs of other nations, access to Japanese markets, and the Oliver North sentence.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-07-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Former U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) radio technician Eleanor Jean Bechtel discusses her enlistment, the social environment in wartime America, her basic training in West Palm Beach, FL, and receiving electronics and radio instruction at the Ben Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia. She also talks about the base in Florida where she trained, seeing John Wayne and Robert Montgomery there filming a movie, and moving to post-war Japan to work as a civilian secretary.
- Date Issued:
- 2003-07-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Harry Truman delivers a radio address to the American people on the Potsdam conference, his observations of the devastation in Europe, and dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
- Date Issued:
- 1945-08-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe deliver joint speeches commemorating those who fought and died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Obama pays tribute to those who were killed and the survivors and discusses the strong relationship that has developed between Japan and the U.S. Abe says that the USS Arizona Memorial is a symbol of reconciliation and pledges to continue to improve relations between the two countries. Features a Japanese to English voice over translation. Held at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-12-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Takashi Tanemori talks about losing his sister, mother, and father in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and describes the hardship of being an orphan. He also talks about coming to the U.S. as a agricultural immigrant and being discriminated against because of his radiation sickness and for being Japanese. He says that he has moved on from being angry to forgiving his tormentors.
- Date Issued:
- 2009-06-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- David Murley reminisces about his former professor C. Patrick "Lash" Larrowe, Michigan State University professor of economics. Murley talks about working as Larrowe's teaching assistant, their political differences, Larrowe's eccentricities, and Larrowe's involvement in controversies surrounding the Vietnam war, government surveillance, race relations, and MSU's ROTC program. Murley also talks about Larrowe's war experiences on Okinawa during WWII, his personal life, his association with Students for a Democratic Society, and Larrowe's lawsuit against MSU for forcing him into retirement. Murley is interviewed by John Revitte, MSU professor emeritus of Labor and Industrial Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2015-02-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Just before the economic summit, President Clinton addresses students of Japans Waseda University.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-07-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Stuart Eizenstat praises Walter Mondale's contributions as U.S. Ambassador to Japan.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-10-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Bill Clinton announces the United States has reached a trade agreement with Japan which will see the Japanese opening their market to U.S. parts and cars and the U.S. eliminating restrictions on 13 Japanese car models.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-06-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection