Here are links to my three-part series on former NBA player, teacher, poet and writer Tom Meschery in The Japan Times:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2017/10/13/basketball/memories-war-profound-effect-meschery/
Also posted here: https://edodevenreporting.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/tom-meschery-column-series/