[3][4][5][6] Thanks to intervention by the Japanophile (and pro-Japanese spy) Lord Sempill[7] and others, he was released a few days later, on Monday 5 August, due to "insufficient evidence".
[3][8] Mitsubishi closed their London office in October 1940, whereupon Makihara returned to Tokyo, becoming General Manager of the company's Marine Products Division.
[2] While en route, their ship Taiyō Maru was torpedoed (on 8 May 1942) by USS Grenadier near the Danjo islands [ja; de] to the west of Kyūshū, with 800 deaths including Makihara.
[2] The main building was requisitioned to become the headquarters of the Anglican Church in Japan, and there Minoru met Bishop Kenneth Bayer from Harvard University.
[2] As Minoru had twice won the General MacArthur English Speech Contest, Bayer introduced him to St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), from where he progressed to Harvard.