ABSTRACT
THE PRE-WAR Japan Consular Service sent selected new entrants each year to study Japanese. As a result, a corps of Japanese-speaking consuls was created. The Foreign Office realized that Japanese-speaking officers would be needed after the war in the embassy, and in consular posts in Japan and as soon as circumstances permitted the practice of sending out each year young diplomats to study the language was revived. The first of these was Peter Westlake (the Rev. Peter Westlake, CMG, MC) whom I succeeded in late 1951 in the United Kingdom Liaison Mission to SCAP (in 1952, after the entry into force of the Peace Treaty, the British Embassy).
