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Sherwood Ford Moran (8 October 1885 – 7 February 1983)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherwood Moran (1885 - 1983) - Claremont, CA )〕 was a United States Marine major who after serving as a Congregational missionary in Japan fought in the Second World War as an interrogator of PoWs and soon after became known for his memorandum on the efficacy of humane forms of interrogation. ==Biography== In 1885, Sherwood F. Moran was born in Covington, Kentucky to William Joel Moran and Margaret Ford. His father was a military clerk of Irish descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Sherwood Ford Moran, 1885-1983 )〕 He had a twin brother, Ford Moran, and a sister, Margarita. Margarita became a devout Baptist and evangelical missionary in India, while Ford became "a bitter atheist, sarcastic, anti-politics, anti-everything." Ford eventually became a fisherman and sailor.〔 In 1914, Sherwood graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's in philosophy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherwood F. Moran Papers, 1925, ca. 1920s-30s, 1942-46, 1961, 1974, n.d. - Oberlin College Archives )〕 In 1915, he married Ursul Mildred Reeves. In 1916, he graduated from Union Theological Seminary, after two years of study, with a Congregational ordination. In the same year, he also attained a master's in philosophy from Columbia University.〔 Between 1916 and 1940, the Morans were missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Japan. Their time was spent mostly in Osaka, where in 1925 they established the Christian Church there and the Yodagawa Neighborhood House.〔 〔 https://www.flickr.com/photos/pinboke/3130062238/ 〕 S.F. Moran was a vocal critic of Japanese behavior toward China and Korea.〔 During the Second World War, after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, he volunteered as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. After traveling to the Marine headquarters in Washington D.C. and enlisting there, he was made a captain immediately, despite his age, as he was perhaps the most fluent speaker of Japanese in the United States.〔 He performed his duties 1942-46, eventually reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He landed on Guadalcanal with the First Marine Division in the first wave on August 8th, 1942. He received in 1944 a Citation and a Bronze Star medal for his part in the Guadalcanal campaign, by Admiral William Halsey, Jr. In 1946, following postbombing assessment, he left the Marine Corps. In 1948, he and Ursul returned to Japan to continue their work, from which they retired in 1956. Sherwood Moran was awarded by the Emperor of Japan the official decoration known as the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Fifth Class.〔 He was admired and loved by his comrades in the USMC. On 25 October 1967, his wife, Ursul, died in Claremont, California. She was born on 21 November 1890. She is buried at Hillside Memorial Park in Redlands, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ursul Reeves Moran (1890 - 1967) - Find A Grave Memorial )〕 In his later years, Moran published many articles on Japanese sculpture and other artifacts in Artibus Asiae and Oriental Art, and authored a volume on Japanese swordguards and accessories.〔 He had three children: his eldest son, Sherwood Reeves Moran, another son, Donald, and a daughter, Barbara (Brickett). He died on 7 February 1983 at the age of 97. He is buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Redlands, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sherwood F. Moran )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sherwood F. Moran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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