Kyoto, Japan

Today I talked to Sensei Tomonaga Ijiro, he considers himself a "hibakusha", because he was a victim of the bombing to Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII. He told me the story of how he didn't believe or trusted his friends when they told him to crawl because they saw a plane dropping a bomb. So there he was looking straight at the super powerful blast of the atomic bomb. He feels ashamed because he thinks he was worthless after losing his sight, he thought he was a burden to everyone around him. He scaped from home, his brother and his life, because of his depression. He ram to Sapporo where he met an Ainu gardener, Ota Hideki, who worked for a hotel. He became his master and taught him the art of gardening. He took him to the forest every day, therefore he knew the forest very well. When Ota died Tomonaga was so thankful to him, that he considered "going" with him. When the crisis started everyone was "fired" from the hotel, so Tomonaga had no place to live, he remembered the forest so there he went. He was ready for everything, even death. He was very pesimistic, and wanted to die, until one day he had an encounter with a bear, but the bear did not kill him, or attack him at all, otherwise he warned him of the prescence of a zombie. After this he understood that the Gods wanted him alive, so he fought for his nation and his life.