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Just a few footnotes to the wealth of material already contributed to this thread:

Earl Miner should also be added to this list.  I know none of the details of his military service, but that must have been how he learnt Japanese.  As Bob Brower tells it, they met on their first jobs at the University of Minnesota, discovered their mutual interest in Japanese literature, decided to compile a book of essays on various aspects thereof, but rapidly came to the conclusion that there was no point in writing anything about Japanese literature until they knew a great deal more about the waka that were at the core of it all.  As a remedy to their problem, Donald Keene introduced them to Konishi Jin'ichi -- and the rest, as we say, is history.

Incidently, Earl's wife Virginia is one of those who was fluent in Japanese before the war -- and continued to attend yearly reunions of her yôchien class for years thereafter.  I've always wished she would write a memoir.

Bob Brower also describes his own recruitment roughly as follows:  Shortly after Pearl Harbor, someone came past the door to his suite of rooms at Harvard (those were the days!) shouting "Anyone here want to learn Japanese?"  He decided on the spot that, "I'd rather learn their language than be shot by them."  Thereafter his undergraduate career was little changed, except that he was wearing an Army uniform and had added Japanese to the study of French literature, which was his original interest.

I was very glad to see that Ed Kamens drew our attention to Ed McClellan's RAF service.  I remember him describing it, with that wonderful wry modesty of his, as "four years in Washington, most of it spent going to parties."

Tom Harper


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    Amanda Stinchecum <astin...@gmail.com> Oct 15 08:14AM -0400  

    Philip Yampolsky, scholar of Zen Buddhism and director of Columbia's East Asian Library, served in the Navy. I can't remember the details, but Donald Keene probably would have further information.
     
    Amanda
     
    On Oct 14, 2013, at 10:32 PM, Ross Bender wrote:
     
    Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously served in American Navy intelligence during World War II. I know there were many other great American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the US (and perhaps British) military services, and I am trying to compile a list. Any suggestions would be welcome.
     
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    Philip Brown <hokurik...@gmail.com> Oct 15 08:44AM -0400  

    Robert K. Hall, Jr., followed in his father's footsteps as a geographer and
    was involved in the Strategic Bombing Survey as I recall. Professor of
    History at the University of Rochester and instrumental in establishing
    Japanese studies there.
     
    Phil Brown
     
     
    Philip C. Brown
     
     
     
     

     

    "Adam L. Kern" <alk...@wisc.edu> Oct 15 08:41AM -0500  

    Howard S. Hibbett.
     
    I believe he suspended his undergraduate education at Harvard College to
    serve as a code breaker for several years. He is still sworn to secrecy...
     
    AK
     
     
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    Chris Kern <chris...@gmail.com> Oct 15 09:43AM -0400  

    How about Bernard Bloch and Eleanor Harz Jorden? I saw a copy of Jorden
    and Bloch's 40's textbook "Spoken Japanese"; it contains lessons on talking
    about your military experience, and assumes you will be working with a
    native speaker who doesn't know English. So hand signals are provided to
    communicate classroom instructions. Despite that, you can see that the
    textbook is Beginning Japanese and Japanese: The Spoken Language in embryo.
     
    -Chris
     
     

     

    Cynthea Bogel <cjb...@gmail.com> Oct 15 11:21PM +0900  

    Block and Jorden are discussed in the section on Spoken Language Theory in _Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A Social History_, by Stephen Murray, 1994.
     
    Cynthea J. Bogel
    Kyushu University
     
    On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Chris Kern wrote:
     

     

    "Kristina Troost, Ph.D." <kristin...@duke.edu> Oct 15 02:25PM  

    Dan Fenno Henderson (1921 - March 14, 2001) was a university professor who established the Asian law program at the University of Washington. (again complements of Wikipedia)
    Henderson was born in 1921 in Chelan, Washington.[1] He attended Whitman College in Walla Walla. He graduated in 1944 as Phi Beta Kappa. He was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was given a choice on whether to learn Chinese or Japanese; he chose to learn Japanese.[2] He attended the U.S. Army Japanese Language School, located at the University of Michigan. At the university he received a bachelor of arts degree in Oriental Studies in 1945. By the time he arrived in Japan, World War II had ended.[3] Under Douglas MacArthur he became the head of censorship of the Army force occupying Hokkaido.
     
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    Block and Jorden are discussed in the section on Spoken Language Theory in _Theory Groups and the Study of Language in North America: A Social History_, by Stephen Murray, 1994.
     
    Cynthea J. Bogel
    Kyushu University
     
    On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Chris Kern wrote:
     
     
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    Matthieu Felt <mf...@uchicago.edu> Oct 15 10:49AM -0400  

    In Political Science, James W. Morley and Robert S. Schwantes both served
    in the U.S Navy.
     
     
    On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Kristina Troost, Ph.D. <

     

    Danielle Rocheleau Salaz <sa...@Colorado.EDU> Oct 15 09:54AM -0600  

    Please see the below message, which I am forwarding on behalf of David Hays of the University of Colorado Libraries.
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    Center for Asian Studies
    University of Colorado Boulder
     
    From: David M Hays <David...@Colorado.EDU<mailto:David...@Colorado.EDU>>
     
     
    Several of the men mentioned (Keene, Cary, Sheldon, deBary) were not only in Naval Intelligence during World War II, they were also among the 1650 attendees and graduates of the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School, located by turns in Tokyo [1910-1940], Harvard University [1941-42], University of California, Berkeley [1941-42], the University of Colorado [1942-1946], and Oklahoma A&M [1945-1946]. Since the Navy chose Phi Beta Kappas and people with graduate degrees, I suppose it should not be a surprise that the roll of the school reads like a who's who in academia, intelligence and diplomacy.
     
    I have been directing the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/index.htm, at the Archives, University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, for the past 13 years. I am attaching some documents I put together regarding that postwar legacy. I am even working on a bibliography of what the attendees of the school produced regarding Asia and the Pacific.
     
    My list does not include those who graduated or attended the US Army Japanese Language School, or those who were in intelligence in both services, but who did not specialize in languages.
     
    Respectfully, David M. Hays, Archivist
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    Philip Brown <hokurik...@gmail.com> Oct 15 02:10PM -0400  

    I believe that Frank O. Miller, a political scientist (College of Wooster)
    and biographer of Minobe Tatsukichi was also a product of the military
    foreign language program. (He also knew Russian.)
     
    PCBrown
     
    Philip C. Brown
     
     
     
     

     

    Kristina Buhrman <kristina...@gmail.com> Oct 15 12:45PM -0400  

    I have no specific names to add, but I do know Roger Dingman, emeritus
    professor of history at University of Southern California was working on
    the subject, focusing on language education. His book project hasn't made
    publication yet, but I'll attach a link to a relevant 2004 article of his.
    Contacting him would probably be fruitful (along with the useful University
    of Colorado US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School Archival Project).
     
    http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_military_history/v068/68.3dingman.html
     
    Sincerely,
    Kristina Buhrman kristina...@gmail.com, kbuh...@fsu.edu
    Department of Religion
    Florida State University
     
     
     

     

    Hitomi Tonomura <tomi...@umich.edu> Oct 15 10:12AM -0400  

    Dear Ross:
    Some of these names have come up already, but here are the scholars who had
    been trained in the military, became UM students or faculty and went to the
    UM Center for Japanese Studies Okayama Field Station (岡山分室）in1952-55:
    Robert Hall, George Totten, Edwin Neville, Forrest R. Pitts, Arthur
    Klauser, John Cornell, J. Douglas Eyre, Robert E. Ward, Richard K.
    Beardsley, Robert J. Smith, Joh W. Hall and a few others. Also (outside the
    Okayama framework) Dan Fenno Henderson, Harold W. Stevenson, and Grant K.
    Goodman. You can read some of their reflections in *Japan in the World, the
    World in Japan: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan *(CJS Pub,
    2001). In addition to the Navy Language School at the University of
    Colorado, mentioned by Charlotte Eubanks in the previous message, the Army
    Language School at the University of Michigan trained hundreds of men in
    Japanese.
    It seems to me the list of Japanese scholars (all fields) who were in the
    service during WWII or shortly thereafter is very long, and I wonder if
    combing through the two language schools might be a good place to start.
    Hitomi Tonomura
     
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    Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously served in American Navy
    intelligence during World War II. I know there were many other great
    American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the US
    (and perhaps British) military services, and I am trying to compile a list.
    Any suggestions would be welcome.
     
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    Evgeny Steiner <e...@soas.ac.uk> Oct 15 08:14PM +0100  

    I guess Beate Sirota Gordon (1923-2012) could be mentioned, although she
    was not an academic in a strict sense. (However she wrote extensively on
    Japanese and Asian dance.) Being of Russian-Jewish extraction, she was one
    of but very few non-Japanese people in US who were fluent in Japanese at
    the beginning of the war (about 60, she recollected). During the war she
    worked at the War Office Information, and after the war she served for
    MacArthur as a translator and took part in writing the new Japanese
    constitution.
     
    Evgeny Steiner
     
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    "Unger, James" <unge...@osu.edu> Oct 15 11:34PM  

    Robert Borgen asked me to forward following message. For some reason, he was unable to send it from his present location (in Korea) to the PMJS server.
     
     
     
    First, I'd like to thank Ross for starting this discussion, even if so far it consists mostly of listing rather than discussing. I've long thought it remarkable how a vicious war created a core of serious scholars, fond of their former enemy, who would create, from virtually nothing, the academic study of that nation. The phenomenon merits more attention then we have given it.
     
    Second, I suspect the professional concerns of those on this list have led us to omit scholars whose research was outside our interests. My impression is that, when I was a graduate student at the University of Michigan, all the senior faculty members were military language school alumni. That includes Robert Ward (political science), Richard Beardsley (anthropology, including archaeology), and Roger Hackett (modern history). I believe Donald Shively and John Hall were also in the military. The final three scholars were all children of missionaries who grew up in Japan, but I recall Prof. Hackett telling us that, until he went to military language school, his Japanese lacked an adult vocabulary.
     
    And finally, my impression is that most of the American Japan specialists who came out of military language schools went to the Navy school at the University of Colorado, not the army school at my alma mater. I wonder why?
     
    Robert Borgen
     
    P.S. Among English scholars, wasn't Ivan Morris a military language product?
     
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    Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously served in American Navy intelligence during World War II. I know there were many other great American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the US (and perhaps British) military services, and I am trying to compile a list. Any suggestions would be welcome.
     
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    William Wetherall <bi...@wetherall.org> Oct 16 09:37AM +0900  

    It is hard to finda Japanese-language or other Japan specialist of the
    mid-20th century and onward who was not a of the Pacific War.
     
    The Japanese Language School at the University of Colorado had its
    immediate origins at UC Berkeley, where Keeneentered the program. The
    history of the program is a story in itself about the intimacy of
    Japanese-language training and national defensein the United States.
     
    http://www.swet.jp/columns/article/keene_seidensticker_et_al/_C34
     
    Among my professors at UC Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
    Elizabeth (McKinnon) Carr (Classical Japanese) and Susumu Nakamura
    (advanced Japanese and kanbun) had been among the core instructors at
    theU.S. Navy Japanese Language School at Boulder. Nakamura was part of
    the original Berkeley faculty that moved to Colorado, partly on account
    of the Executive Order to evacuate "Japanese" from the westcoast.
    Elizabeth McKinnon, of part Japanese ancestry, had helped Elisséeff and
    Reischauer produce their language materials at Harvard. Her husband,
    Denzil Carr, was the resident Malay-Polynesian specialist at Berkeley,
    but he was originally a Japan-specialist, trained and ordained in the
    1930s, and he served as a Japanese specialist during the war. Denzil
    Carr made cameo appearances in Haruo Aoki's graduate courses on Japanese
    comparative linguistics. Aoki himself would be an example of a scholar
    who wouldprobably never havedone what he did had the warnot ended the
    way it did. Born raised in Korea, and a witness of the atomic bombing of
    Hiroshima, he ventured to America as a student of English linguistics
    and ended up a Nez Percespecialistwhiledefending Japanese linguistics in
    the Oriental Languages Department (as it was then called).
     
    And not to forget the McCulloughs. They had returned to their alma
    materby the start of my second (or third) stint at Berkeley in the late
    1970s and early 1980s. Helen was a JLS product (class of November 1944),
    and servedin Washington, D.C. before serving in Tokyo during the
    Occupation. Bill began his studies at Berkeley after the war but studied
    under those who had returned to Berkeley from Boulder (and others), and
    he himself servedas a language specialist in the US Army before
    completing his doctorate. The McCulloughs went out to pasture at
    Stanford for a while before returning to the barn at Berkeley. They
    represent the"continuity" of wartime Japanese studies that spilled into
    the coldwar era. Even my own generation was heavily supportedby national
    defense fundingas Japanese continued to be regarded a "strategic" language.
     
    It would be interesting to know who KNEW Japanese at the time of the
    Pacific War but DECLINED to contribute their expertise to the Allied
    Cause -- including "No-No" kibei, and sons and daughters of missionaries
    and others who had become bilingual. It would also be fascinating to
    explore the contributions and fates of their bilingual counterparts in
    Japan.
     
    I should add the late psychological anthropologist George De Vos to the
    expanding list. He was a product of U.S. Armylanguage training during
    the war. Many of his colleaguesin the United States were products of
    similar training. Their counterparts in social and medical sciences in
    Japan benefited from the earliest postwar Fulbright scholarships to
    study in the United States.They, and others like them, were also
    essentially nursed and weaned at the breast of the Pacific War. For
    some, the war continues.
     
    Bill Wetherall
     
     
    (2013/10/16 0:54), Danielle Rocheleau Salaz wrote:

     

    Helen Hardacre <hard...@me.com> Oct 15 03:17PM -0400  

    I'm so glad someone mentioned Gordon. She was a member of the Occupation committee that drafted the postwar constitution of Japan and thus tremendously influential.
     
    Helen Hardacre
     
    On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Evgeny Steiner wrote:
     

     

    Hitomi Tonomura <tomi...@umich.edu> Oct 15 07:57PM -0400  

    (i thought I sent this out yesterday, but my mail has been strange and I
    apologize for repetition....)
    Some of the following names have come up already, but here are the scholars
    who had been trained in the military, became UM students or faculty and
    went to the UM Center for Japanese Studies Okayama Field Station
    (岡山分室）in1952-55: Robert Hall, George Totten, Edwin Neville, Forrest R.
    Pitts, Arthur Klauser, John Cornell, J. Douglas Eyre, Robert E. Ward,
    Richard K. Beardsley, Robert J. Smith, Joh W. Hall and a few others. Also
    (outside the Okayama framework but at UM) Dan Fenno Henderson, Harold W.
    Stevenson, and Grant K. Goodman. You can read some of their own reflections
    in *Japan in the World, the World in Japan: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies
    at Michigan *(CJS Pub, 2001). In addition to the Navy Language School at
    the University of Colorado, mentioned by Charlotte Eubanks in the previous
    message, the Army Language School at the University of Michigan trained a
    large number of [future] experts in Japanese.
    Please see:
    http://www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/aboutus/historyofcjs
     
    It seems to me the list of Japanese scholars (all fields) who were in the
    service during WWII or shortly thereafter is very long, and I wonder if
    combing through the two language schools might be a good place to start.
    Hitomi Tonomura
     
     
     
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    phone: 734-647-7298

     

    "Avery M." <ave...@gmail.com> Oct 15 07:51PM -0600  

    I notice that William Woodard has not yet been mentioned. Woodard, a
    former missionary, was in the Navy and later the GHQ from 1942 to
    1952. He supervised the re-alignment of Japanese religious policy
    during the Occupation, and authored the book "The Allied Occupation of
    Japan 1945-1952 and Japanese religions", which is a fine and detailed
    study despite his personal involvement with the policymaking. He also
    assisted in the publication of "Shinto: The Kami Way" which strongly
    influenced the postwar Western image of Shinto for many decades.
     
    Avery Morrow
     

     

    Nicholas Teele <njt...@gmail.com> Oct 16 11:25AM +0900  

    To the list please add Roy E. Teele (1915-1985). Commissioned in the Navy,
    he studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in the Chinese class.
    After serving in China he returned there as a missionary (University of
    Nanking). Forced out in 1949, he moved to Japan (Kwansei Gakuin) in 1950 ,
    and added classical Japanese literature to his many loves. After moving
    back to the US he found a home teaching Japanese and Comparative Literature
    at the University of Texas at Austin. His activities in Japanese studies
    included not only work in the Man'yoshu and Noh but also editing the Japan
    section of the Twayne World Authors Series and the journal Literature East
    & West, which often had a Japanese focus.
     
    See:
    http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/teele.pdf.
     
    Nicholas Teele

     

    Nicholas Teele <njt...@gmail.com> Oct 16 10:51AM +0900  

    To the list please add Roy E. Teele (1915-1985). Commissioned in the Navy, he studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in the Chinese class. After serving in China he returned there as a missionary (University of Nanking). Forced out in 1949, he moved to Japan (Kwansei Gakuin) in 1950 , and added classical Japanese literature to his many loves. After moving back to the US he found a home teaching Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. His activities in Japanese studies included not only work in the Man'yoshu and Noh but also editing the Japan section of the Twayne World Authors Series and the journal Literature East & West, which often had a Japanese focus.
     
    See: http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/teele.pdf.
     
    Nicholas Teele

     

    arntzens <sonja....@utoronto.ca> Oct 15 11:58AM -0700  

    I have two names to add to your list.
     
    Leon Hurvitz, scholar of Japanese and Chinese Buddhism, who held a
    position at the University of Washington and then moved to the
    University of British Columbia in 1972. Hurvitz was a scholar of Latin
    and Greek before the war, but was assigned to learn Japanese. Because he
    was a student of classical languages, he started to study classical
    Japanese on his own while serving in American Navy intelligence. He
    always said that classical Japanese was the most beautiful language he
    had ever encountered after classical Greek. After the war, however, his
    research interest switched to the transmission of Buddhism across East
    Asia and he learned Sanskrit, Pali, classical Chinese, and Tibetan to
    pursue that topic. He is best known as a scholar of Chinese Buddhism,
    thanks to his translation of the Lotus Sutra according to the Chinese
    version of Kumarajiva (Columbia UP, 1976), but his research was based on
    an exhaustive knowledge of modern Japanese scholarship on Buddhism, and
    he taught classical Japanese at UBC for his whole career there.
     
    John Howes, another scholar at UBC who served in the American occupation
    force in Japan and went on to become a historian of modern Japan. See
    tribute to him on his retirement from UBC,
    http://www.asia.ubc.ca/people1/john-howes/ , which does not however
    mention his military service.
     
    Sonja Arntzen
     

     

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Also add to the list of American scholar of Japan in WWII, Grant Goodman, a historian of modern Japan, who taught for many years at the University of Kansas. He learned Japanese in the military and was attached to General MacArthur's HQ. He still resides in Lawrence and in fact I am going to his birthday party on Friday.
Pat Graham

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About Earl Miner:
Although it is not mentioned in the NY Times obituary, Daily Princetonian, or the press release issued by the university at the time, the Princeton Town Topics states:
He was educated at the University of Minnesota, where he first studied Japanese in the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946.
--Gerry Yokota

Michael...@ma2.seikyou.ne.jp

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Would it not in some sense be more interesting to know the scholars of Japan in the immediate post-war generation who were not trained by the military or the offspring of missionaries? That list would surely be more manageable and might prove revealing as well.

m. jamentz


> About Earl Miner:
> Although it is not mentioned in the NY Times obituary, Daily Princetonian,
> or the press release issued by the university at the time, the Princeton
> Town Topics states:
> He was educated at the University of Minnesota, where he first studied
> Japanese in the U.S. Army between 1944 and 1946.
> http://www.towntopics.com/apr2104/obits.html
> --Gerry Yokota
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Thomas Harper <tjhar...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> > Just a few footnotes to the wealth of material already contributed to this
>
> > thread:
> >
> > Earl Miner should also be added to this list. I know none of the details
> > of his military service, but that must have been how he learnt Japanese.
> > As Bob Brower tells it, they met on their first jobs at the University of
>
> > Minnesota, discovered their mutual interest in Japanese literature, decide
> d
> > to compile a book of essays on various aspects thereof, but rapidly came t
> o
> > the conclusion that there was no point in writing anything about Japanese
> > literature until they knew a great deal more about the *waka* that were
> > at the core of it all. As a remedy to their problem, Donald Keene
> > introduced them to Konishi Jin'ichi -- and the rest, as we say, is history
> .
> >
> > Incidently, Earl's wife Virginia is one of those who was fluent in
> > Japanese before the war -- and continued to attend yearly reunions of her
> > *y&#65533;chien* class for years thereafter. I've always wished she would write
> > a memoir.
> >
> > Bob Brower also describes his own recruitment roughly as follows: Shortly
>
> > after Pearl Harbor, someone came past the door to his suite of rooms at
> > Harvard (those were the days!) shouting "Anyone here want to learn
> > Japanese?" He decided on the spot that, "I'd rather learn their language
> > than be shot by them." Thereafter his undergraduate career was little
> > changed, except that he was wearing an Army uniform and had added Japanese
>
> > to the study of French literature, which was his original interest.
> >
> > I was very glad to see that Ed Kamens drew our attention to Ed McClellan's
>
> > RAF service. I remember him describing it, with that wonderful wry modest
> y
> > of his, as "four years in Washington, most of it spent going to parties."
> >
> > Tom Harper
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:35 AM, <pm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Today's Topic Summary
> >>
> >> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/pmjs/topics
> >>
> >> - American Scholars of Japan in WWII<#141c0b948db034ac_141bf1e4671056c
> 6_group_thread_0>[22 Updates]
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> >>
> >> American Scholars of Japan in WWII<http://groups.google.com/group/pmjs/
> t/3147bb70dd62dfea>
> >> in embryo.
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Adam L. Kern <alk...@wisc.edu<mailto:
>
> >> alk...@wisc.edu>> wrote:
> >> Howard S. Hibbett.
> >>
> >> I believe he suspended his undergraduate education at Harvard College
> >> to serve as a code breaker for several years. He is still sworn to
> >> secrecy...
> >>
> >> AK
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/14/13 9:32 PM, Ross Bender wrote:
> >> Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously served in American
> >> Navy intelligence during World War II. I know there were many other gr
> eat
> >> American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the U
> S
> >> American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the U
> S
> >> Elizabeth McKinnon, of part Japanese ancestry, had helped Eliss&#65533;eff
> >> American scholars of Japan in that generation who also served in the U
> S
> >> [PMJS} American Scholars of Japan in WWII<http://groups.google.com/grou
> p/pmjs/t/8ff7f0388f6575ce>
> >>
> >> Nicholas Teele <njt...@gmail.com> Oct 16 10:51AM +0900
> >>
> >> To the list please add Roy E. Teele (1915-1985). Commissioned in the
> >> Navy, he studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in the Chin
> ese
> >> class. After serving in China he returned there as a missionary (Unive
> rsity
> >> of Nanking). Forced out in 1949, he moved to Japan (Kwansei Gakuin) in
> 1950
> >> , and added classical Japanese literature to his many loves. After mov
> ing
> >> back to the US he found a home teaching Japanese and Comparative Liter
> ature
> >> at the University of Texas at Austin. His activities in Japanese studi
> es
> >> included not only work in the Man'yoshu and Noh but also editing the J
> apan
> >> section of the Twayne World Authors Series and the journal Literature
> East
> >> & West, which often had a Japanese focus.
> >>
> >> See:
> >> http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/teel
> e.pdf
> >> .
> >>
> >> Nicholas Teele
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Digest for pm...@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic<http://groups.g
> oogle.com/group/pmjs/t/a1a40c41bdeae1ea>
> >>
> >> Charlotte Diane Eubanks <cd...@psu.edu> Oct 15 09:41AM -0400
> >>
> >> Hello Ross,
> >>
> >> Are you aware of the US Navy Japanese/Oriental Language School
> >> Archival Project on-going at University of Colorado?
> >>
> >> http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/archives/collections/jlsp/
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Charlotte Eubanks
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>
> >> From: pm...@googlegroups.com
> >> To: "Digest Recipients" <pm...@googlegroups.com>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:46:03 AM
> >> Subject: [PMJS] Digest for pm...@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1
> >> Topic
> >>
> >> Today's Topic Summary
> >>
> >>
> >> Group: http://groups.google.com/group/pmjs/topics
> >>
> >>
> >> * American Scholars of Japan in WWII [1 Update]
> >> American Scholars of Japan in WWII
> >>
> >>
> >> "Unger, James" <unge...@osu.edu> Oct 15 08:12AM Herbert Passin (see
> >> obit in NYT 9 March 2003). ________________________________ From:
> >> pm...@googlegroups.com [pm...@googlegroups.com] on behalf of Ross
> >> Bender [rosslyn...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013
> >> 10:32 PM To: pm...@googlegroups.com Subject: [PMJS] American Scholars
> >> of Japan in WWII Donald Keene and William Theodore de Bary famously se
> rved
> >> in American Navy intelligence during World War II. I know there were m
> any
> >> other great American scholars of Japan in that generation who also ser
> ved
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