When ‘Typhoon Marilyn’ Came to Tokyo

First posted here on June 28, 2019 Heather Howard has accessed the Yomiuri Shimbun archives on Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio’s Far-East adventure for The Japan News. “‘Typhoon Marilyn Monroe comes to Tokyo.’ She certainly did, with a force so powerful it sent some of her fans tumbling into a pond at the Imperial Hotel. On...

Remembering Marilyn and Joe in Japan

First posted here on August 23, 2018 Over at Japan Today, Patrick Parr looks back at the newlywed Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio’s eventful trip to the Far East in 1954, where he was honoured by Japan's baseball fans, and she entertained US troops in Korea. (They’re photographed above with the manager of Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel,...