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256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2023
My final guest of 2022, in keeping with tradition, was comedy and talk show legend Tamori-san. I said to him, "I wonder what next year has in store for us," to which he replied, "I think our country is about to enter a new pre-war era." I pray that his prediction continues to be wrong for years and years to come.
My forty-eight years of hosting Tetsuko 's Room have been forty-eight years of listening to these kinds of stories. It is important to me to explain here that one of my motivations for writing this book was to leave behind a record of my own wartime experience.