G'day. I am in the last stages of my book on Segoe, entering the period when he concentrated on efforts to help westerners.

He talks about various westerners but (as was normal in those days) he made no attempt to give the names in western form, and I can't reliably guess them from the Japanese form.

I had this problem (still unresolved) with a German who appears to have been called something like Stanbach.

I now have the same problem with an Australian called something like Steward. Can anyone identify him more precisely? Answers by boomerang, please

This chap apparently went to Japan after the war specifically to study go, though Segoe also says he was a member of the occupying forces. Perhaps he was someone who wangled a special posting for himself.

He studied for six months in japan before returning to Sydney where he apparently formed a go club with a university professor at its head.

Any ideas?

The earliest references to a go club in Sydney that I have seen relate only to a Kurt Flatow, a jewish refugee. Sydney Go Club was born in the 60s, so that doesn't seem to fit. Maybe a determined search through the engine that threw up this might lead to something https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/18177187 , you'd naively imagine that you're looking for a player called Stewart.

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What's the "Japanese form" of Western names for that period? Katakana?

スツーアード?