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The collection includes a diary, 1950; correspondence, 1942–1981; and manuscripts of books (including "Prussian Bureaucracy and National Socialism"), lectures, and reports, 1947–1959. As a civilian employee of the U.S. Army from 1946 to 1952, Oppler was the principal architect of legal and judicial reforms in occupied Japan.
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This series consists of unpublished opinions, memoranda, official documents, photographs, and press summaries that Oppler generated or collected while serving as the International Relations Officer of the United States Forces Japan (USFJ). Of note are Oppler's "Personal Interest File", which contains clippings, USFJ memoranda and reports, and other documents concerning the affairs of Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyu Islands, and his file of clippings and documents concerning the Sunakawa case, which upheld the constitutionality of stationing United States troops in Japan.