Takashi Oka, a groundbreaking journalist who interpreted the Far East for Americans, was an ICWA fellow in Vietnam who focused on the ongoing war from 1964 to 1966 as the United States moved toward full military engagement and developments in the South became increasingly desperate. Tak went on to spend much of his career as chief Far Eastern correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor. He became the first Japanese-born Tokyo bureau chief for The New York Times and later editor-in-chief of Newsweek’s Japanese edition. He left journalism to enter Japanese politics before earning a PhD from Oxford in political science at the age of 84.