Lt(jg) US Navy
He was a career Foreign Service officer and expert on Japanese politics who served as a top diplomat to the United Nations during the administration of Ronald Reagan. He studied Japanese in the Navy at the close of World War II, joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was assigned to Yokohama and then Tokyo. He became the State Department’s director of Japanese affairs and, in the late 1970s, its deputy chief of mission in Tokyo, the number 2 American diplomat. He was named the US deputy representative in the UN Security Council in 1981 and retired five years later as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. He taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and in 2002, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, a national honor in Japan.
Interment on June 29, 2018.
He was a career Foreign Service officer and expert on Japanese politics who served as a top diplomat to the United Nations during the administration of Ronald Reagan. He studied Japanese in the Navy at the close of World War II, joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was assigned to Yokohama and then Tokyo. He became the State Department’s director of Japanese affairs and, in the late 1970s, its deputy chief of mission in Tokyo, the number 2 American diplomat. He was named the US deputy representative in the UN Security Council in 1981 and retired five years later as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. He taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and in 2002, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, a national honor in Japan.
Interment on June 29, 2018.
Lt(jg) US Navy
He was a career Foreign Service officer and expert on Japanese politics who served as a top diplomat to the United Nations during the administration of Ronald Reagan. He studied Japanese in the Navy at the close of World War II, joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was assigned to Yokohama and then Tokyo. He became the State Department’s director of Japanese affairs and, in the late 1970s, its deputy chief of mission in Tokyo, the number 2 American diplomat. He was named the US deputy representative in the UN Security Council in 1981 and retired five years later as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. He taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and in 2002, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, a national honor in Japan.
Interment on June 29, 2018.
He was a career Foreign Service officer and expert on Japanese politics who served as a top diplomat to the United Nations during the administration of Ronald Reagan. He studied Japanese in the Navy at the close of World War II, joined the Foreign Service in 1951 and was assigned to Yokohama and then Tokyo. He became the State Department’s director of Japanese affairs and, in the late 1970s, its deputy chief of mission in Tokyo, the number 2 American diplomat. He was named the US deputy representative in the UN Security Council in 1981 and retired five years later as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs. He taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and in 2002, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, a national honor in Japan.
Interment on June 29, 2018.
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