language work was initially included in the interior training section of the planning, processing and training branch, functional division, with major wilbur l. williams, cmp, as section chief. there were two language supervisors, 1st lt harold k. brown, inf, and 1st lt suyeki okumura, inf. instruction was carried on initially by five enlisted instructors of japanese ancestry, s/sgt hironobu hino, t/4 randolph k. ideue, t/4 clarence m. kimura, s/sgt masaru nakagawa, and s/sgt paul j. sakai, the divisional reorganization of 22 november 1944 set up separate language section, with major myron i. barker, aus, as chief of section, and 1st lt suyeki okumura, inf, as assistant chief.two additional japanese language informants arrived at the end of december, and fifteen more arrived 5 january 1945, bringing the total to twenty-two. in february, eleven navy officers were assigned to the language section for duty. they constituted a research and production unit. each officer was given a definite project, and attached to him was a group of informants who worked closely with him. two more informants were added to the group in march. 3. by 20 july, the end of the first year of casa, the total number of informants stood at thirty-nine, the number of classes in japanese language; was slightly more than fifty, and the number of classes in the chinese language was fourteen.