Gulf Crisis, confidential （１９）　

１９) Where-after of Medical attache Dr. B

Dr. B, medical attache of the embassy moved to Vienna, his next assignment, several days after the farewell tennis tournament in the embassy ccourtyard .
I knew him through his father, my colleague at Osaka National Hospital. Dr. B wanted to be novelist and learned how to write from a professional writer he met during his high school days. He went medical school rather than pursuing a studies in literature because of his father’s advice.

He was working as a surgeon for several years after medical school, and then changed to medical attache of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As medical attache, he had more free time and international experience. Perhaps he thought it would contribute to his future novels. He once let me read his essays at the booklet from the medical attache's office. His essays were definitely different from others in that his use of Japanese expressions added to the richness of in the tone of the article.

He published his first, non-fiction, professional book in 1998, "Taishikan nanka iranai" or "We Don’t Need an Embassy." It criticized the behavior of the Japanese government as an insider at the time of Gulf Crisis. Then Prime Minister Kaifu and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nakayama were criticized severely for what they said and how they acted. The book gained in reputation with much media attention and sold a fair amount. He had to quit the ministry, of course.

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