Nice. The Soviets wanted payback for the Japanese defeat of Russia decades earlier. Americans wanted to block the Soviets from a grab in Japan.
Perhaps our dads knew each other. My dad was also responsible for overseeing a large neighborhhod in Tokyo as part of the occupation forces. He had personal commendations from Gen. MacArthur. My dad passed away while I was a teen, so I didn't get a chance to ask him much about 1945 and what happened. I do have pictures of him having a limousine and a large fancy home in Tokyo after the war, presumably taken away from a Japanese official. He enjoyed that for a few years, as he was a poor kid from a Philly ghetto.
Yes, they probably knew each other. My dad died in 1974 when I was 23 and he was a young 57 (born 1918).
Too bad we can’t ask them a lot of questions.