Charles A. Pomeroy

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in Beloit, Wisconsin, The United States
November 06, 1930

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Charles Pomeroy emerged from a nomadic childhood in the Mid-west—he was born in Beloit, Wisconsin—to enter another nomadic life in the U.S. Navy starting in 1947 at the tender age of 17. He served eight years as an aircrew member specialized in electronics, which included two combat tours during the Korean War. That war also introduced him to Japan, a country that in 1950 was yet to recover from the destruction of WWII.
But it was during a later assignment to the Naval Attaché in Rome, Italy, in 1954 and exposure to a world beyond the military that awakened a desire for a higher education. As chance would have it, an interest in Japanese language and arts led to contacts with the Japanese community in Rome. Thus, two years later he left the
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Chinese Eunuchs: The Struct...

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Charnel House Brings Closure in Otsuchi

Seventy boxes of ashes and bones, unidentified remains from Japan’s 2011 tsunami, found their final resting place in a new charnel house specially built on Shiroyama (Castle Mountain), a promontory that projects into central Otsuchi. The ceremony here took place on February 19, 2017. That was some three weeks ahead of the sixth anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 mega-quake and tsunami that destroyed Read more of this blog post »
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