Good use of descriptions---some passages were quite evocative! I think you could have dialed way back on your use of the name "Captain Takai", though. Many times, "the captain" or "Takai" or even just a pronoun would have sufficed to add some variety. But I really liked the glimpses of his life and what was meaningful to him, and your hints at how (over the course of his life) he was cooperating with former enemies was nicely done.