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    | The World War II Database
    Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
    | The World War II Database
    Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
    | The World War II Database
    Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
    | The World War II Database
    Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
    | The World War II Database
    Yukio Okutsu was born in Kōloa, Kauaʻi, US Territory of Hawaiʻi in Nov 1921 to Japanese-American immigrants. He joined the US Army in Mar 1943 and volunteered to be part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which was consisted of mostly Japanese-Americans. On 7 Apr 1945, Technical Sergeant Okut...
    | Internet Archive
    The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has officially declared October 22, 2025, as Internet Archive Day in the City and County of San Francisco. Sponsored by Supervisor Connie Chan (District […]
    | arXiv
    arXiv, along with openRxiv, has released its response to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Request for Information (RFI) on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. The NIH intends to establish new policies limiting allowable publishing costs in an effort to maximize t [...]
    | Directory of Open Access Journals
    Ramazan Turgut, DOAJ Ambassador and Managing Editor for Türkiye, provides an analysis of Türkiye’s open access landscape, highlighting critical infrastructure, strengths, and challenges. Ramazan also proposes actionable recommendations to enhance sustainability and international visibility. Türkiye’ [...]
    | arXiv
    Today (September 25, 2025) arXiv login was down from about 12:00 to 15:00 EDT. This occurred due to a confluence of technical issues, the majority of which we have now fixed. Some of these technical issues have been plaguing the arXiv system for the past week, but we believe this current fix will al [...]
    | arXiv
    arXiv’s database will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday, September 17th, 2025. This maintenance will occur between the hours of 7AM and 9AM EDT. While it will be possible to browse, view, and search papers on arxiv.org during this time, all functions that require log in will be d [...]
    | arXiv
    TeX Live 2025 is now available in the arXiv submission process. What is TeX Live? TeX Live is a free distribution of the TeX typesetting system that includes many TeX-related programs, fonts, and macros packages, including LaTeX, maintained by a core group of TeX users and the TeX User Group. What d [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary, my 2005 released DVD box set. The work was always open licensed and it can be downloaded very ea [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    This first paragraph is a paradox. I want you to go to a funding campaign and click on a button and support a project. But the project is one that expects you to be the kind of person who loves reading. I personally think there might be a slight amount of people who don’t have […]
    | www.textfiles.com
    One can choose to focus on the car crash, or the lessons learned from the car crash. Let’s do a little of both. The proposition of the Living Computer Museum was initially simple, and rather amusing in a Slashdot-baity sort of way: You could apply to get an account on a real, actual ancient Mainfram [...]
    | www.textfiles.com
    Imagine, if you will, a vast river. It flows fast, so fast that when you look away and look back it’s in many ways an entirely different river, not just a slightly different one. It used to be blue with an occasional brown or black. Nowadays, it’s basically brown and black and a signficant amount [… [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    Thanks to the support of Harvard Yenching Library, over 5 million pages of scanned materials from the Yenching Library collection have been added to the Library section of the site, including high quality images from the Chinese Rare Books Collection. Approximate transcriptions created using the cte [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    A new version of the Unicode standard has been released, defining thousands of additional rarely used and variant Chinese characters. Support for these has been added to the dictionary section of the site; to view these characters, please install the latest version of the Hanazono font. Many new cha [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    The dictionary section of the site has been updated to make better use of English translations. Dictionary pages now cite English translations of example sentences together with the corresponding Chinese examples. Additionally, dictionary look-ups for passages of texts that have English translations [...]
    | The Chinese Text Project
    The Wiki section of the site provides online browsing and full-text search for numerous texts not yet included in the textual database. Since some of these texts have not yet been adequately proofread, users are invited to help in the process of correcting these texts using a Wiki interface, and enc [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    Version 6 of the Coral Reef Temperature Anomaly Database (CoRTAD) is a global, 4 km, sea surface temperature (SST) and related thermal stress metrics dataset for 1982-01-02 to 2022-12-30. The CoRTAD contains weekly-averaged SSTs, SST anomaly (SSTA, weekly SST minus weekly climatological SST), therma [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    Reddit comments and submissions from 2025-05 Documentation, json schemas and more can be found at https://github.com/ArthurHeitmann/arctic_shift Helper scripts for processing files can be found at https://github.com/Watchful1/PushshiftDumps
    | Academic Torrents
    The Argo Ocean Profiling Network is a global ocean observing system developed to address the lack of data coverage in parts of the world ocean, as well as the need for regular capture intervals to enable both short and long-term climate predictions. NCEI operates and manages the Global Argo Data Rep [...]
    | Academic Torrents
    Contains roughly 1200 datasets from the VA Open Data catalog, as made available through the data.json. Excludes datasets that have no public downloads. Also includes a _failures.csv for download links that lead to 404 errors, for posterity. About Open Data (from site): Open data is VA data that is f [...]