Scriabin biography faubion bowers

American academic

Faubion Bowers (January 29, 1917 – November 17, 1999) was an American academic and writer in the area of Asian Studies, especially Japanese theatre.

He also wrote the first full-length biography of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.

Scriabin biography faubion bowers

During the Allied Occupation of Japan, he was General Douglas MacArthur's personal Japanese languageinterpreter and aide-de-camp.

Biography

Bowers was born in Miami, Oklahoma. He graduated from Columbia University in 1935 and the Juilliard Graduate School of Music in 1939.^[1] Bowers taught at Hosei University in Tokyo from 1940 to 1941.

After the surrender of Japan, he was the interpreter for the advance party of 150 US personnel which flew into the Atsugi airfield on August 28, 1945. As MacArthur's interpreter he lived at the American Embassy with the MacArthur family, and served as interpreter at the initial meeting between MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito.

While an official censor for Japanese th