 When World War II ended in 1945, about 1.6 million Japanese people were left in Manchuria, most of which was nominally under the Chinese Communist control, but acturaly occupied by the Soviet Army.In 1946, Kunio, then 42 years old, and two younger men were chosen by the All-Manchuria Japanese Society (Tatsunosuke Takasaki, President), to deliver secretly a plea to the Japanese Government for repatriation.Three men independently reached Japan, Kunio having left his family in Dalian in association with Dalian Catholic Church (Father Lane) and escaped Manchuria via Huludao Port, which was still under the Chinese Nationalist control.