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. inoue, t/4 clarence m. kimura, s/sgt masaru nakagawa, and s/sgt paul j. sakai, the divisional reorganization at casa of 22 november 1944 set up a 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. 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. at the end of the first month of japanese language instruction, the officers in charge of the program, 1st lt harold k. brown, inf, and 1st lt. suyeki okumura, inf, made a report to the commanding officer. they mentioned certain problems which had become apparent during the course of the month. for one thing, the instructors had not received any teaching materials from military intelligence school, camp savage, minnesota, from which all of them had come. for reasons of security, they had been asked to turn in all their language materials before they left, but were promised that materials would be shipped as soon as requested by proper authority. request had been made, but no materials had arrived. another problem was created by the different systems of spelling used, (hepburn and block-kennedy) some of the officers having been trained in one system and some in the other. this difficulty was met by mimeographing all teaching materials in both systems. one paragraph of this report is of special interest.