Earlier on, when he was working in Tsingtao in mainland China, during the Japanese colonial period many Chinese people came to hate the Japanese. But when he saw how systematic the Japanese were in running Tsingtao, so that even the fish market was sparkling clean, he thought that these people were really not so simple and were worth studying.
以前他在大陸青島工作時，時值日本殖民時代，一般中國人極痛恨日本人，但是當他看到日本人把青島治理得井井有條，連漁市場都乾乾淨淨時，就認為日本這民族不簡單，值得學習。