During the period 1973-79, he founded and managed Interlingua Language Services, with offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Manila and New York City.
Most of his reporting was devoted to East Asia, especially Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and China, but other places as well, and in the earlier part Africa.
He also insisted that actual living standards in Japan were much lower than the impression given by statistics such as per capita GDP.
Despite controversy when they were first published, many similar ideas are now part of mainstream orthodox opinion on the Japanese economy and society.
His books on other parts of East Asia, especially Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and China, were equally controversial, but for the opposite reason.