Then the wife of an imperial navy officer, she is now, at 79, president of Japan's League of Women Voters.
In January 1942 we moved to Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo. A teacher there asked my three-year-old son, "What will you do if the enemy attacks?" He replied, "I'll kick them." That's military education for you. They were teaching that a kamikaze ((divine wind)) would blow Japan to victory.
I was always wondering if things were going the right way. I always tried to feed my husband rice, while the rest of us had rice gruel. Once the older boy complained, "Gruel...
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