My family gave up developing new farmland and moved to Hokkaido.

It was mostly cloudy, but warm. In Sapporo, the temperature rose up to 26 degrees, but here in Tomakomai, the highest temperature was 18 degrees. In the morning, I went to our field and planted two seedlings of yakon, and watered corns and beans we had planted yesterday. In the afternoon, I enjoyed playing park golf with Ayako at Itoi Family Park Golf Course just close to the golf course we played the other day.

 My personal history  ④
It was late autumn in 1949 or early spring in 1950. My father's younger brother, who had returned from Sakhalin, which used to be Japanese territory before the war, visited us in our hut in the mountains in Miyagi. He was surprised to see our life in such poor circumstances, and advised us to move over to Hokkaido where he worked as a carpenter. By the way, I was in the third year, the final year, of junior high school then, and I had to think of what I should do after April when I would finish my junior high school. My father asked me whether or not I wanted  to work as a farmer there in the future. I answered "No." I had no idea what I would be in my future, but I vaguely wanted to go on to senior high school if possible. Despite our poor circumstances, my school record was good. So, my homeroom teacher recommended me to go up to senior high school. I took the entrance examination for senior high school and was allowed to enter Furukawa Senior High School, which was a prestigious school there. Still then, I didn't know how to commute to the school, because it took me more than an hour to walk to the village which had a railroad station, and then, it took another half an hour to Furukawa city by train. There was, of course, a financial problem,too.
At last my father gave up living there and decided to move to Hokkaido, as advised  by his brother.