June 14th, my 75th birthday.



Ayako

  Today is my 75th birthday. I am now so-called  an "old old",which means the people over 75. I'll be invited to the party on "Keiro no Hi" or "the Respect-for-Senior-Citizens Day holiday in September


Talking with my cat

My history after the war 　① 

I am thinking back on my life so far. I was born in Fukagawa,Tokyo, in 1936. The war began in 1941, when I was five years old. By 1944-45, Tokyo was under severe air raids by US millitary forces. In February,1945, when I was eight years old, we couldn't live in Tokyo any more. My family, - my parents, my two sisters and I, decided to evacuate to Miyagi prefecture, which was my father's birthplace. I remember the scene of the platform  of Ueno railway station which was congested with evacuating people.  



The war ended in August 15th,1945. We wanted to go back to Tokyo, but Tokyo had completely been destroyed and we had no place to live there. ( to be continued)