Keywords
US Navy Japanese Language School, Roger Pineau, Japanese-Language Officers, World War II
Abstract
On their last day of class at the US Navy Japanese Language School (USNJLS or JLS), Captain Roger Pineau and his fellow classmates waited in a room on the second floor of the University of Colorado library. They had spent the last eleven months immersed in a rigorous study of the Japanese language, and today their teachers had promised a sample of what they would experience as Japanese-language officers in the Pacific War. The six students sat intently as their conversation sensei (teacher) entered the classroom, removed a Japanese newspaper from his briefcase, placed his pocket watch on the table, and began a fifty-five minute reading, without pause.
Recommended Citation
White, Katherine
(2013)
"The Men Who Could Speak Japanese: The Navy Japanese Language School at Boulder, Colorado (1942-1946) and the Legacy of World War II Japanese-Language Officers,"
The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing: Vol. 42:
Iss.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thetean/vol42/iss1/11
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