Posnerʼs Tentative List of Archival Repositories and Accumulations of Records in Japan

Interactions with Warnerʼs List

Abstract

During World War Ⅱ, Ernst Posner who escaped Nazism to settle in the United States, worked eagerly to list archival repositories in areas affected by the war. Dr. Takahiro Sakaguchi has provided detailed descriptions of these lists, which include the “Archival Repositories in Japan, Korea, and Japanese-occupied China”in his recent book．“Tentative List of Archival Repositories and Accumulations of Records in Japan” was found among the Posner papers that were held in NARA Ⅱ. This paper introduces the tentative list comparing it with published lists and reports; it presents the status of these records in addition to their interactions with Warnerʼs list that designate cultural properties that were to be protected.