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* Last evening when I came back to my home at about seven o'clock, I became so sleepy that I went immediately to bed without watching the second game of Japan-U.S. professional baseball match. It was six o'clock when I got up this morning. I slept just for eleven hours in a night. As it was warm last evening, I could sleep a night without having heat at all.
Mr. Takashi Tachibana's special article titled as "Warship Yamato and Second Defeat--What Japan should learn from the tragedy of Yamato--No conditional surrender in Economic War?--What weak points of Japan were exposed by Warship Yamato" on Bungei Shunjyu Magazine December 2002 issue is well worth reading. He was five years old when the war ended. Nevertheless, he has shown well the abnormal behavior of Japan, especially of Imperial Navy. Admiral Seiichi Ito, commander of the second fleet, had a opinion of that it was almost impossible to win the battle without having coverage of airplanes. He insisted he could not bet the lives of 7,000 men to the foolhardy operation plan. Admiral Ryunosuke Kusaka, Chief of Staff of Imperial Navy Joint Fleets visited Ito on his ship and told him "In short, I want you to die. 100,000,000 Japanese have to make special attacks not far from now. I hope you will die splendidly as a good example to them." The commander Ito agreed immediately. Mr. Tachibana wrote that Japan was tracked down in a blind corner. There was no other way than the special attacks." In November 1994, Warship Musashi, a sister ship of Yamato, was sunk by the enemy planes off the Leyte Island. Yamato came back to the Kure Naval Base for repair. So I could see Yamato very near. I acknowledged the bigness of ship as the other warships such as Haruna or Hiuga which guarded Yamato looked like destroyers. The ship was not only big in size but it had a balanced beauty appearance. In April 1945, the ship disappeared abruptly. It was her last sortie. I did not know the above said behind the scene struggles at the top of navy. Although the title of article was a bit strange, I hope you will read it.
* In morning I visited the National Cancer Center Tokyo Central Hospital after weeks to test blood and urine. The hospital processed the test efficiently without keeping patients long to wait. As it became noon, I climbed up to a restaurant on the 19th floor of hoapitl and took a lunch. The high-rise buildings around Shiodome, about which I reported a few days ago, were seen clearly. A few other tall buildings along the Yurikamome train way were under construction.
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The Rainbow Bridge was covered by moisture. I could see it vaguely.
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* Tonight I watched first time the U.S.- Japan professional baseball match on TV. The all Japan won the game tonight so that Japan got three successive victories. But the U.S. team's power to hit long lead by Barrey Bonds of San Francisco Giants was wonderful while Hideki Matsui of Yomiuri Giants had no home-run until today. I am afraid that he will play well at the big league.
This morning I got a call from Ms. H in U.S.A. As she could not open the latest pages of my diary, she was worried about my health, she said. The problem was solved soon because it was caused by wrong operation of PC. Apart from the said problem, the English edition of this diary was delayed these day by about a week. I apologized her the delay. It is quite a pleasure for me to have the overseas eager viewers of my diary.