VOSHN 307

<body><a href="../index.html">HOME</a><br><table summary="286"><tr><td class="etesti">286</td><td class="edate">On August 15<sup>th</sup>, 1945.</td><td class="eage">I may have been a hikokumin(traitor).</td></tr><tr><td class="ei_midasi" colspan=3>15 years old at that time</td></tr></table><table summary="haikei"><tr><td class="bg" background="../../photo/img702.jpg"><div class="large"><p>I heard the war was over in a countryside, where I had been evacuated.  I said to my neighbor, "I feel really happy and relieved to hear that."  Then he said to me, "You don't understand.  It's bad news."  "Why?" I asked him.  "When the war is over, all Japanese will be killed because we are enemies to them.  Just think, Japanese army has killed many Chinese in China."  He answered.  I felt so scared to hear that.</p><br><p>I asked him how we were going to be killed.  He answered, "The enemy will make us line up and cut off our heads with a sword."  "But it seems to be difficult to kill us all in that way.  They need many swords and they won't be able to kill many with their hands only."  I said to him.  Then he said, "They will not use only that way, but every possible way."</p><br><p>Actually I was very happy to think the war was over.  I could go to school again.  I was really happy.  Then I said to him, "There won't be air-raid any more and we'll be able to turn on lights in the house at night."  This time, he agreed with me and said, "Yes, we will."</p><br><p>I may have been a <i>hikokumin</i> (uncooperative traitor to the war and was regarded as unpatriotic.  It was the most critical word among Japanese in those days.)  For all that, I was really happy.</p></div></td></tr></table></body>