sentences:  Patterson later served as a Methodist missionary in Japan and diplomat in Japan prior to his posting in Korea.Patterson briefly left Japan as Chargé d'Affaires at the Canadian embassy China in October 1946.After the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution on UNTCOK on 14 November, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B Pearson cabled George Patterson, who at the time was posted in Tokyo, to ask him to become Canada's representative on UNTCOK.