The Fifth and Sixth Grades in the 1938 Chochin. |
Ulrich "Rick" Straus
lived a total of twenty-one years in Japan, first as a child between 1933
and 1940 in Tokyo. He served as a U.S. Army language officer in Japan
during the Occupation and participated in the trial of Japan’s major war
criminals. He was Consul General on Okinawa from 1978 to 1982 and retired
from the Foreign Service in 1987.
Amazon.com
(The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War
II)
...
is the culmination of my research going back some 7-8 years. I used many
Japanese sources, including books, articles, and personal interviews, as
well as the recollections of those Americans who did the wartime
interrogations of Japanese prisoners of war. In the latter category there
were quite a few ASIJ graduates. I was in the Army's Military Intelligence
Service Japanese Language Program when the war ended. If it had gone on, I
might well have been among those involved with POWs.
Rick Straus
in an email to library volunteer Jennie Orchard
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