Faubion Bowers

Faubion Bowers. Script and Continuity Department: American Masters. Trained as a concert pianist, Faubion Bowers switched careers in 1940 and traveled to Japan, where he taught at Hosei University in Tokyo. He left Japan in 1941 and became a lecturer at several universities in Java, then returned to the U.S. Fluent in Japanese, during World War II he served in the US Army's Military Intelligence division as a Japanese interpreter,...