Herbert Norman and the distinguished American diplomat (later himself Minister-Counselor in the Tokyo embassy) John Emmerson. Later life In 1960, the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class, in recognition of his "long and meritorious service in the advancement of Japanese-American relations and in the building of a new Japan." Interviewed in 1962 as part of Columbia University’s oral history project, his reminiscences about the Occupation of Japan have provided useful material for historians. The "Eugene Dooman archives" are held at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dooman died on February 2, 1969, in Litchfield, Connecticut. References 1890 births 1969 deaths Japanese emigrants to the United States American people of Iranian-Assyrian descent American orientalists United States Department of State officials Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class Columbia School of Mines alumni