My wife worked with a Japanese American girl whose Father was drafted near the end of WWII. He was sent into Japan as part of the Army of Occupation.
The fact that he spoke Japanese probably helped. He also met his future wife there.
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“Hiroshi H Miyamura ~ 07 May 2018, yarddog wrote:
My wife worked with a Japanese American girl whose Father was drafted near the end of WWII. He was sent into Japan as part of the Army of Occupation.
The fact that he spoke Japanese probably helped. He also met his future wife there.”
Her father could have been a Kibei, an American of Japanese ancestry who was educated in Japan. There were about 10000 of them and about 7000 served with the US military. Their service to America was invaluable during the war.
Most AJAs (like my parents) spoke Japanese as a second language and would not have qualified as a translator or in military intelligence.