Completing that task on 18 December, the high-speed transport sailed for Shanghai on the 19th in company with , , "YMS-259", "LCS(L)-58" and two other landing vessels — "LC(FF)-45" and "LCS(L)-22" — under tow by the larger minesweepers. "Bunch" served as convoy guide for the passage, which was undertaken to permit the two craft in tow to receive repairs. The high-speed transport and her charges reached Shanghai on 22 December, and "Bunch" spent the remainder of the month at moored to a succession of buoys in the port. In January 1946, "Bunch" moved to Taichow, China, where she carried out minesweeping duties in cooperation with "YMS-338", "YMS-329", and "YMS-366" before shifting to Wenchow Bay to do a minesweep radar plot. At the completion of these tasks, the high-speed transport set out by way of Hong Kong to return to Okinawa. She entered Buckner Bay on 20 January and began loading Japan-bound minesweeping gear. "Bunch" reached her first Japanese port of call, Sasebo, on the 26th and then went on to visit Wakayama and Kobe before leaving the last-named port on 21 February to return to the United States.