Japanese governor brought home a wife
The Japanese governor of the islands had been widowed so he took a special trip to Japan to find himself...
Colonial Period
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How Hans Hornbostel met Gregorio Sablan in the 1920s
The Guam Recorder announced in early 1924 that Hans Hornbostel was headed for the Marianas to conduct research for the...
What Alexander Spoehr found
on Obyan Beach
Anthropologist and former curator of the Bishop Museum Dr. Alexander Spoehr had concerns about the destruction of archaeological sites on...
Guam’s prewar ‘Recorder’
If one were to conduct a research on prewar Guam, The Guam Recorder would be an ideal starting point. The...
Hans Hornbostel goes to Saipan (1924)
The Guam Recorder remains an indispensable companion to learning about prewar Guam. It covers departures from and arrivals on island,...
Trudis Alemån’s liberation
from Santo Tomas camp
When the U.S. Army soldiers stormed the gates of their camp, she laid on the ground with a satisfaction she...
Garapan’s Japanese Jail
Historic District
There remain only a few extant Japanese Period structures left on Saipan but none of them as storied as the...
‘Big Americano who
has hair like our Virgin’
This photograph of Hans Hornbostel on the Japanese schooner Mariana Maru appeared in the Philippine Magazine in May 1936. (Philippine...
The first operational
airbase in Micronesia
The Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport sits on two historic airfields: Isely Field (formerly named Conroy Field) and Aslito Airfield....
Northern Marianas under
Japanese rule, 1914-1944
With Germany's defeat in WWI, Japan took over all of its colonial possessions in the Western Pacific. On October 14,...