[Machine Translation] At the end of the war, the confusion of postwar society awaited the demobilized soldiers who spent less than a year as prisoners of war on the island of Leyte in the Philippines, and they were reunited with their families and old friends. A collection of ten short stories and essays born from his war and postwar experiences. Includes a posthumous manuscript (1988) in which the Emperor Showa states that he is "deeply saddened" by the Emperor's serious illness.