People in Japan were facing food shortages, and air bombing day and night.
But, the government and its military powers, still continued the hopeless situation, and called young people to send them to battlefields.
At that time in Japan, Daikichi was working as a picture drawer of Japanese footwear Geta.
Eiko, the eldest sister, was weak in health, but doing daily chores to help her family.
When it is time to harvest the wheat from the fields outside of town, the children look forward to making bread and noodles to eat.