VOSHN 289

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="271"><tr><td class="etesti">271</td><td class="edate">August 14<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  About p.m.2:00</td><td class="eage">23 years old at that time</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>It was maybe all a complete lie.</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img647.jpg"><div class="large"><p>On the afternoon of 14th, maybe it was already about two o'clock, ah, one charcoal bus came, well, the banner was on it and said: "oral report party."  Its letter was written in Chinese ink vividly and also said: "Please get on the bus".</p><br><p>I remembered I had arrived first at kiyomizu shrine in Yasaka-machi (district).  The bus brought me there.  I wondered: "Hum, there are any people in such a place?" and looked around.  But, well, I went up a long slope, Ah-, got at the other side of this shrine, there were many dug dugouts.  Our team member shouted through a megaphone: "Now, oral report party will report.  Please come around there." Totally almost one hundred people came in groups of twos and threes from dugouts.</p><br><p>And, well, I also prepared a map on which the area from Manchuria (Chinese northeast part) to Korea were, pointing it, and said that official news at that time had reported Korea army, Kanto army (Chinese northeast part stationing Japan army) had been fighting at anchuria, so Let's fight also till the last time.  Well, It was maybe all a complete lie, I said such things, I finished the first kiyomizu shrine.</p><br><p>And then, all people surprisingly, well, after the atomic-bomb at 9th till 13th, they really spent their time at dugouts everyday.  They trembled with fear.  So when they noticed at our armbands which expressed we were report member of the defense headquarters, were delighted at.</p><br><p>Well, they asked me: "How is Japan?"  "Japan is OK?" Looking at me, they looked as if they were going to cling to me.  And then "Now we were in such a situation, everybody, let's fight till the last time."</p></div></td></tr></table></body>