I found someone on ebay is selling a ww 2 Japanese phrasebook. Its pretty interesting--you don't have to buy the book to read whats inside so take a look below at the way they trained American soliders to speak restricted Japanese. The choice of words is especially interesting--commands you'd expect to use on POWs, or when lost for example.

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-1944-WW2-RESTR...=item35b1231cbd


http://books.google.com/books?id=Ch9kAAAAM...p;q&f=false

And the winning bid was almost 19 USD. Damn! And it looked like a nice book for my collection...

you're a strange dude, charizardpal.

Cool find. That would have been a good piece for the bookshelf.

Kee KAHN JOO wa NAHN da ee ah ree MA ska?
How many machine guns are there?

My Japanese friends are going to think I'm nuts when I start asking some of these questions to them. lol.

How time have change chance are these books might worth something