War Diaries (January 7) (nonfiction)

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War Diary entires for January 7

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Ken Nakamura: January 7, 1943

I can hear the constant roar of guns from the direction of the front lines … It seems as though our forces aren't firing a single shot as they have no ammunition or rations. Sometimes the enemy planes would come and strafe us. It makes me boil with anger when they come to strafe us

Mister Park: January 7, 1943

We have had fewer customers than ever before since January 2. We managed to sell only fourteen tickets to soldiers.

—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.

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