Around that time, there were some advertisements for a brand of cookie that read: ‘Cookies aren’t just sweets. They’re a national defence food!’ and: ‘Today’s children will be tomorrow’s soldiers on the frontline, so we mustn’t neglect the nutrition of infants on the home front’, and so forth. The company president was probably just following their example. However, without any explanation of what the ‘national defence’ actually was, it didn’t strike me as being as convincing as the cookies ad.
Inside the office the Master and company president were talking loudly about how strong the sumo wrestler Futabayama was.
‘He might have fallen short of his dream of seventy wins, but still, he set a new record of sixty-nine wins that’s unlikely to be beaten any time soon. I can’t help thinking th
