Mark Gein's Japanese Diary shows United States policy in the Far East during the early years of the occupation of Japan. M. Hein is an American journalist. He was well acquainted with the Far East and had traveled to various East Asian countries before the war. Shortly after the surrender of Japan, he came to this country as a special correspondent for the Chicago Sun. During his year in Japan (December 1945 to December 1946), Gein traveled to many provinces of the country, and in the fall of 1946 he traveled to Korea for three weeks.