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EG: And what was your assignment in, in Tokyo, then, in G.H.Q.?

TM: After I went back, they assigned me to a scientific, economic and scientific section in the forestry building. And there was an office known as fundamental research, whatever that meant. They were responsible for the precision machine or machinery that I guess MacArthur's or Allied forces gather from the schools and the places like that. And like let's say engineering department of universities had precision machinery. And the, I guess occupation forces took 'em. And they were in storage, and about that time the university was saying well, now that war is over and we need to educate our students and we would like to have those machineries back. And the job was, our job, including mine, was to see if they really needed them, and which machinery and when to return them. And so, soon after I was assigned to them, we took a trip to various universities and talked to 'em to see what we could do.

EG: The department of restoring and building up Japan again.

TM: Yeah. And I guess I didn't stay there long enough, but eventually I think the machinery was returned to the universities. Not the commercial factories, but the universities.

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