sentences:  Evacuated to Java after the fall of Singapore, he was attached to the headquarters of General Archibald Wavell, but after the fall of Java to the Japanese Sansom was evacuated to Australia, and from there back to Washington, D.C., where he remained until the end of the war as a Minister Plenipotentiary attached to the British Embassy.Sansom was the British representative on the Far Eastern Commission, which formally oversaw the Allied Occupation of Japan.He revisited Japan in 1946.