the education section prepared a series of memoranda including immediate objectives of the education section, japan, long range plans for education, administrative organization, and staff requirements in headquarters and in the field. the group undertook the collection of a large number of japanese school textbooks and of other works on education in japan. the chief of section spent five weeks visiting major educational institutions on the pacific coast, collecting japanese textbooks and other materials, and interviewing persons who had some personal experience with education in japan. the group secured the services of translators who began the translation of the more important of the textbooks. two additional memoranda were written; a suggested editorial policy for the revision of japanese textbooks and a proposal that katakana be adopted as the official language.