I turned sixty years old in 1942(Shōwa 17). It was a time in which World War II was growing more severe day by day. Accordingly, the war effort in our country gradually became a focal point and the nation acted in complete accord with selfless devotion. We were forced to cope with the national difficulty and many made personal sacrifices.

As a result, by government order, one by one, the schools in the big cities began to evacuate to the countryside. Even though it was inconvenient, many people went to the country because food was plentiful there and the likelihood of being a victim of enemy attack was comparatively slight. In our school, transfer students entered both the women’s technical college and girls’ vocational school, so those schools quickly exceeded capacity.

In April of 1944(Shōwa 19), we divided the women’s technical college curriculum into a clothing department and a course of health science. In 1947(Shōwa 22), after the war, the students in the health science course were able to obtain secondary school teachers’ licenses for home economics and health science without being subject to examination.