Hall Leaves For Study Of Japan

Hall Leaves For Study Of Japan Will Set Up University Research Center
Dr. Robert B. Hall, director of the University's Center for Japanese Studies, was to leave here this afternoon on the first lap of his journey to Okayama, Japan, where he will head a new research field station of the center. Dr. Hall plans to sail Friday
from San Francisco. University researchers who will be on his staff in Japan will leave here Friday to sail Feb. 24. On that staff will be Dr. Richard K. Beardsley, assistant professor of anthropology; Dr. Robert E. Ward, political science instructor, and John Douglas Eyre, graduate student in geography.
The three men will be accompanied by their wives. The Beardsleys' daughters, Elizabeth, six, and Kathryn, two, also will go with the group.
The field station is the first of its kind to be established overseas. Its staff will study Japanese culture. They will examine particularly the effects of industrial civilization on the Inland Sea area, which has changed from a feudal to an industrial society within the last 100 years.