Chapter 6
Muddling Through
‘We’re going skiing!’ the Master boomed the moment he arrived back home.
It was the end of December 1941, and ever since Japan had declared war against America everything had suddenly brightened up.
Food had become a little scarcer, but not to the point where there wasn’t enough, and shares for rubber companies in the south had soared providing huge returns for investors, so the streets became a little livelier and people were calmer, too.
The company president had invited the family to go skiing. They were to stay for two nights somewhere like the North Japan Alps, where the snow was deep. Mistress Tokiko had apparently been an expert skier in her student days, but she’d given it up since getting married because of the young Master’s illness. Now soon to st
