VOSHN 296

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="275"><tr><td class="etesti">275</td><td class="edate">August 15<sup>th</sup>, 1945.  Past noon</td><td class="eage">Has Japan won the war?</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>26 years old at that time</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img702.jpg"><div class="large"><p>A stranger talked to me on a street.  "Nurse, where have you returned from?" he asked me.  "I visited Nishimachi to gather ashes and am on the way back to the Headquarters of the Military Hospital."  "I heard that there has been an important radio broadcast just now.  Did you hear it?"  "No, I didn't, but I've heard of it.  It's about time for it to air.  Did you hear it?"  " I did.  I couldn't hear clearly but it seems that the war has ended."  "Then, Japan has won?  Or has it lost the war?"  "I do not know."</p><br><p>I headed to the hospital, half believing and half suspecting Japan's victory.  When I arrived back at the hospital and said "I'm back," one of the top faculty members said to me "You're back.  We have just heard an important radio broadcast.  All of us cried.  The director also cried."</p><div class="greens">Translation by another person.</div><div class="large"><span class="orangered">Did Japan win the war or lose it?</span></div><br><p>I was stopped by a person in the middle of the road.  He asked me, "Nurse! Where have you been?"  "I've been to Nishimachi to gather some people's ashes and I'm on my way to go back to the military hospital."  "There was just an important broadcast, have you heard it?"  "No, I haven't listened to it yet.  I heard that there would be a broadcast.  It's time to go on air.  Have you heard it?"  "I've heard it, but the radio picked up interference so I couldn't get it.  But somehow the war seems to be over."  "Did Japan win the war or lose it?"  "I don't know."</p><br><p>I half believed we won and half believed we lost and I went back to the head quarters of the hospital.  I said, "I'm home."  One of the executives of the hospital told me," Have you just come back now?  There was an important announcement.  We all cried with the director of the hospital.  We all cried."</p></div></td></tr></table></body>