At 6 a.m., the morning reveille blasted Harry awake. Breakfast in the mess hall began at 7 a.m., to be followed by classes at 8 a.m. The men devoted seven hours daily to class, two to homework, and Saturday mornings to exams. They worked on reading, Japanese-to-English translations, and interpreting skills. The students were expected to memorize fifty to sixty kanji daily, a frenzied pace to learn one of the world’s most difficult languages.
