Deciphering the Rising Sun: Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War

This book is about Americans not of Japanese ancestry, who served as Japanese language officers in World War II. Covering the period 1940—1945, it describes their selection, training, and service in the Navy and Marine Corps during the war and their contributions to maintenance of good relations between America and Japan thereafter. It argues that their service as “code breakers” and combat interpreters hastened victory and that their cross—cultural experience and linguistic knowledge facil...