Episode 43: A Japanese Linguist and an American Soldier

If you were asked to describe a “soldier,” what kind of image does that word conjure up in your mind? Popular media has generally portrayed the American soldier as a muscular white male, or sometimes a white female, and while they may have constituted the majority of the U.S. military force, history fails to give recognition to the Asian American women who contributed to the U.S.’s victory by taking on many different roles during World War II to assist the armed forces. References 1. Ano, Masaharu. "Loyal Linguists: Nisei of World War II Learned Japanese in Minnesota." Minnesota History 45, no. 7 (1977): 273-87. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20178492. 2. Hirose, Stacey Yukari. “Japanese American Women and the Women's Army Corp, 1935-1950." M.A. thesis: University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. 3. Moore, Brenda L. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003. 4. Sato, Marie. "Japanese American women in military." Densho Encyclopedia. n.d. Accessed July 5, 2019. https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Japanese%20American%20women%20in%20military/. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pacific-atrocities-education/support