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“He told me to go ahead and submit my transfer request to the CBPO (Central Base Personnel Office). So I said I would, and that was the end of the conversation. Not too long after that, around the end of 1959, I submitted my ‘dream sheet,’ my list of preferred assignments, to the CBPO, and almost immediately, I was told I was being transferred to Tachikawa Air Base, about thirty miles outside of Tokyo, in sixty days. I don’t know for certain if LeMay or his program had anything to do with it or not, but I was very happy.”

Immediately, Suenaka quit Sacramento College and headed back to Hawaii to spend a little vacation time with his family before heading overseas. Upon arriving home in February, however, he was stunned to discover O’Sensei himself was in Honolulu; incredibly, Suenaka had received no news of the Founder’s historic visit. Suenaka arrived the day after O’Sensei’s blessing of the newly-constructed Hawaii Aikikai. Although he was unable to attend, his family did; his father, mother, and brother Greg can be seen in many frames of a film, available on video, of the event.