The Japanese War: London University's WWII Secret Teaching Programme and the Experts Sent to Help Beat Japan

ISBN-13: 9781873410332 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 192 str.

Sadao Oba;Sadao Oba

Opis

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.

Translated by Ann Kaneko. How British school pupils were recruited to learn in 18 months or less what was then considered to be the most difficult language in the world, in order to become translators, interpreters and interrogators for the allied effort in the Pacific War - a staggering 648 experts in the period 1942-47.

Spis treści

Preface, Shutting the Stable-Door, The Courses, The ‘Japanese’ War, Into Action, In South East Asia at the End of the War, With the Occupation Army in Japan, The War-Time Courses Assessed, What Became of the Instructors and Students after the War, The Legacy of the War-Time Courses, Appendices, Bibliography, Facsimile documents, Index, Maps

O autorze

Sadao Oba