Let us express our heartfelt condolences for the bereaved and in particular for Eileen. Memories come back of our mutual visits, especially of your short stay at our place in Tokyo in 1955. We were all younger then: Jim was lively and jovial, always quipping and cracking (Irish?) jokes. It was an unforgettable occasion above all by the sarin gas sabotage on the Tokyo metro on the very day you had a sightseeing tour to Asakusa (March 20). Do you remember the hectic one-hour-three-transfer trip to Sayama?
But time passes, memories deteriorate and I can no longer recall if the tale about canaries gas detector was what Jim taught me at that time together with half a dozen names of poison gases – sarin, VX, phosgene and others or an intrusion from elsewhere. People also passes away. You will feel a great void around you for years to come but please be strong, persevere and most of all??? Kei and Eiko Yamanaka