Burton Crane

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Burton Crane (1901-01-23-1963-02-03) was a New York Times correspondent on economics during the Occupation Period of Japan. His wife was Esther and transcripts exist of his recollections on the Occupation Period of Japan in the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. In Japan, He was well-known as an unusual singer for Columbia Records in the early 1930s while he worked for The Japan Advertiser (1927-1936).