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The Japanese War - London University's WWII Secret Teaching Programme and the Experts Sent to Help Beat Japan (Hardcover)
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The Japanese War - London University's WWII Secret Teaching Programme and the Experts Sent to Help Beat Japan (Hardcover)
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Shortly after the surrender of Japan in August 1945, the author was
a junior Japanese officer serving in Java waiting to be repatriated
by the advancing British-Indian army. When the allied troops
arrived, he was astonished to find that there was not a single
Japanese-speaking British officer. Thirty years later, now serving
with the Mitsui trading company in London, Sadao Oba encountered
several British Japanologists who spoke fluent Japanese. Asked how
such language skills were acquired, he was informed of the special
intensive language courses which were organized at the School of
Oriental Studies (now SOAS), University of London, from 1942-1947 -
which, in five years, produced a total of 648 experts in Japanese.
This book documents the story of how the brightest students in the
country's grammar schools were recruited to learn in 18 months or
less what was then considered the most difficult language in the
world, in order to become translators, interpreters and
interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War.
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