Style Resume. Takeo Kikuchi #1

About a year before the end of the war, I suffered from a disease in which pus accumulated in my pleura, and the head of the surgery department at Nippon Medical School operated on me at home. I remember it was extremely painful, without anesthesia. I think it was probably provided by the military, but penicillin had arrived just after the war, and I used it to treat the infection. I was the second Japanese person to use it.

At the time, my parents' house was 1520m² in size, and there was a Western-style building on either side of a typical Japanese one-story house that my father used for work. Although we lived in the one-story house for everyday purposes, such as eating and sleeping, we would sneak into the Western-style building to play.

My father's clothes were completely Western, or maybe Russian, and he had a strange sense of fashion. After the war, I was forced to wear children's clothing surplus from the US military. I wore jeans, a reversible synthetic jacket with a zipper in the front, and leather shoes. Like other families, there were times when food was scarce, but our family's period was quite short, and we were able to recover quickly. I think that was also because my father had connections with politicians.