[Eric in the Ozarks]

I think he had a working knowledge of Mandarin and he spoke Japanese pretty well.
You might find this interesting;
He joined a Masonic Lodge in Shanghai in the 1930s but lost track of the group of men during the war. When he took the DAC job and arrived in Japan, he found several of his old lodge brothers and the lodge itself in Tokyo. They had left China in 1949 following the Communist takeover that banned all things western. This is proably why we stayed in Japan until 1961--a lot of these guys just didn't want to go home.

[Quix]

Interesting.

I can certainly understand enjoying staying in Asia. Love the people.