Ernest John Harrison

[2] As a young man, Harrison was a journalist who worked for newspapers in England, British Columbia, and Japan.

In 1897, while working for Yokohama newspaper called Japan Herald, he began training in Tenjin shinyo-ryu jujutsu.

[citation needed] In 1917, Harrison was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Labour Corps of the British Army[5] but later transferred to Military Intelligence.

[3][6] In 1921, Harrison left Lithuania to London and started to work as official press attaché and ELTA correspondent in the Lithuanian legation to the United Kingdom.

[7] During the Second World War, Harrison was a censor in Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish languages for the British Post Office.

Ernest John Harrison (sitting first on the right) and other reporters interviewing Mark Twain from his hotel bed in Vancouver on 18 August 1895