sentences:  In 1933 Sir Francis Oswald Lindley assigned him the task of negotiating a commercial treaty between British India and Japan.Sansom was made a member of the Japan Academy in 1934 and in 1935 he was promoted to Knight Commander within the Order of St. Michael and St. George.As relations between Britain and Japan continued to deteriorate Sansom's reputation as a Japanophile came to be perceived as a liability.