The following is the continuation of the previous chapter.
Left wing after the war
During the war, at the old junior high school there were also military drills, etc. because we also brought up to officers from there.
However, if it is said that militarism is one color, it was not the case either.
When I entered junior high school, in 1943, the battlefield shifted all the way and was around the Solomon Islands.
Also in those days it was using an English textbook titled "King's Crown Leader" with a crown of Britain on the cover.
Britain is an enemy country in Japan.
Singapore is an era when I was renamed as Shonan Island.
Inside, "Tom's father is a bunker. He wake up at 7 o'clock and eat coffee and bread. He will go to the bank at nine" and so on, it was written that such as.
Despite being in the midst of war, when a teacher came in in English time the class leader said "stand up".
When everyone stands there, he says "bow".
When everybody bows, he says "Sit Down".
So everyone is seated.
Lessons start from there.
It was 1944 that the military English textbook came out.
In my sense "It has become a war" since Saipan had fallen.
Until then, it was a feeling that "It is at war with somewhere" "Japan should always be winning."
And in 1945, the Tokyo air raid starts.
So, "War was terrible" is memories of the last year.
Without the memory of that last year, I think that it was unworried thing to say war.
However, since memory of that one year is very intense, it would be that it was bad before the war, it was dark.
The shocking thing after all was that it was occupied.
Since Japan was occupied by foreign countries for the first time in the history of more than 2,000 years, it is good-for-nothing if saying that it is good-for-nothing.
This draft continues.