‘They understood me, but not my heart’: Kibei Linguists Making Race, Masculinity, and Alien Citizenship in Occupied Japan and the Korean War

Advisors: Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia), Steven Casey (LSE)

“Nisei interpreters, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section, Tokyo, Japan, ca. 1946” — U.S. Army photograph; public domain. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ATIS_Interpreters_Tokyo_Japan.jpg