War Diaries (January 1) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for January 1.
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Mister Park: January 1, 1943
The 18th year of Showa and the 2,603th year since the founding of Japan, January 1, Friday, Clear skies, 19ºC, 21ºC. This was the second New Year's Day since the start of the Holy War for East Asia. One hundred million people prostrated themselves in reverence, and celebrated in honor of the long life of the Emperor and the prosperity of the imperial family. I am very far from my hometown. I woke up at the Kanpachi Club, a comfort station in Arakan, Burma, and bowed in the direction of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in the east. I thought about my parents, siblings, wife, and children back at home and prayed for their happiness. The light of the eastern sky shined down on me auspiciously, blessing the nation with prosperity and the Imperial Army with martial fortune. My brother's wife and (REDACTED)-hwan together with some comfort women went down to the regimental headquarters as well as three or four other places to deliver their New Year's greetings in the hopes that we might enjoy another safe and happy year. Once night fell and my New Year's on the front lines was almost over, I dreamed about a year of good fortune. Because I had had trouble sleeping for the last several days, this night I slept soundly.
—Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager
George Beck: January 1, 1944
New Years Day Today I received a letter from the wife stating that these last few months she has been fed up, and was wondering what would happen when I got home and found out how cool she was. Since my friend Roberts called she wants me home badly. Rather dispiriting letter, wrote one back, don’t know what will happen.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
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