Kazuko,my younger sister came to visit us with her daughter,Mariko.

It was fine, but a little windy and not warm. Kazuko, my younger sister had promised to come to visit us, and her second daughter, Mariko, drove her and arrived a few minutes before 11:00 a.m. Kazuko is five years younger than I, and now, she lives in Iwamizawa, central Hokkaido alone. She married a man who graduated from the department of Nippon University and used to be a bit movie actor, and had two daughters. But, soon after the second daughter was born, her husband died of illness. Since then, she and her daughters had lived with our father in Iwamizawa until our father died at the age of 80. Our mother had died about 10 years before. So, Kazuko's life so far has not always been very happy. She is still working as an accountant for some little company. I am glad to hear she is enjoying her single life, playing tennis, watching baseball games, or going to concert with Mariko.      

My personal history   12
Late on the evening of the day when I arrived, my father came home carrying a shovel and an empty lunch box. He was working as a day-laborer at some traffic zone. When he was young, he studied law in the law school of Chuo University in Tokyo wanting to be a lawyer. But he gave up becoming a lawyer because in 1923, when he was 28 years old, Kanto Great Earthquake occurred, and he lost all his books and everything. And then he began working at one time as a policeman, and at another time, ran an independent business like producing fuel for domestic use called "tadon". And just before the war ended, he was a section chief of an optical industry company. So, I couldn't imagine he would work as a day-laboror and our family would have to live on his day wages.