Family and boyhood in Kansas and southern California; teaching in Japan, 1932-1938: observations of Japanese culture, religion, and militarism; graduate studies in history, Stanford and Harvard; WWII service as naval intelligence officer, Pearl Harbor, 1940-1945; professor, Department of History, UC Berkeley, 1946-1970s: departmental leadership, key faculty appointments, effects of the loyalty oath, student unrest in the 1960s, changes in curriculum, chairing the department, 1957-1961 and 1972-1975; East Asian studies at Berkeley: the East Asiatic Library and the Center for Japanese Studies; Academic Senate chairman, 1971-1972, and service on the budget committee; publications on Japanese history and culture, working with Japanese scholars; reflections on teaching, foreign language studies, Education Abroad Program, graduate students; family, religion, and retirement.