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About
1. Outline of the History of the Japanese Interned in Siberia
2. Reasons for the Silence
3. My Uncle was a Siberian Internee - Experience of My Family
4. What I Learned from the Japanese American Incarceration during WWll
5. For the Younger Generation
6. As Materials for the Acquisition of Japanese or English
7. Appreciation
Takeo Kuba
1. Photos
2. Official Document as POW kept in Soviet
3. Internment Camp #13 & 14 Detainee Date of Arrival on Nov. 15 Questionnaire
4. Detainee Registration Card Kept in Soviet Union
5. Request of Work by Takeo 1950.3.20
6. Declaration of the Personal History for Reentry to Japan
7. Map of Russian Federation
8. Map of Maritime Provinces in Russia
Camp Locations
Paintings by Yoshida
The Volga Far Away
Chapter 1
Announcement of the Important News (p.40)
Increasing Disappointment and Wish to Go Home (p.42)
Crossroads of Fate (p.45)
Chaos in the Military Headquarter (p.48)
Japan-Soviet Relationship During This Time (p.52)
Detainees or Prisoners? (p.56)
Handing Over Weapons and Ammunition (p.60)
Escaping in the Dusk (p.63)
Military Order at the Detention Facility (p.65)
Going Home from Hungnam? (p.69)
Chapter 2
Cooking Red Beans with Dynamite (p.74)
Life in the Tent at Kraskino (p.77)
Strict Military Order of the Soviet Army (p.79)
Travelling across Siberia on a Sardine-packed Train (p.86)
“Meshiage” in the freight train (p.89)
55 Degrees Centigrade below Zero in the Freezing Weather (p.91)
Prisoner's Train from the West to the East (p.93)
Sunset over the Horizon (p.95)
Interesting Group Psychology (p.98)
Four-Day “Death March” (p.108)
Chapter 3
Gulag at the 55th Parallel North (p.116)
Group of 10,000 Commissioned Officers (p.118)
Company of Civil Officials and Civilians (p.120)
Democratization and Delegate Meeting (p.124)
Distribution of Sugar (p.133)
Quota and Tabacco (p.136)
Additional Food for the Amount of Labor (p.142)
Toilet in the Severe Cold (p.144)
Chapter 5
The Hospital at Zelenodolsk (p.166)
Death Toll was 800 in One Winter (p.169)
Friendship in the Gulag (p.171)
Pain and Terror in the Prison (p.174)
Investigation of the Assistant Director (p.176)
Misery of the Prisoner (p.180)
Rising Scary Suspicion (p.183)
Chapter 6
“Russian in Four Weeks” and Russian Novels (p.188)
Wall Newspaper and “Japan Newspaper” (p.190)
Reading Group behind the Barbed Wire (p.192)
Translation of “the Declaration of the Communist Party” (p.194)
Brain Washing Activities in the Gulag (p.196)
Chapter 7
Hospitals and Clinics (p.218)
Life of the Soviet (p.222)
Simplicity and Kindness of the People in Tatar (p.227)
Chapter 8
Do Svidania (See You Again) (p.232)
Boat Going Home to Maizuru (p.235)
Returning to the Ministry of Finance (p.238)
The Tragedy of the Volunteer Army in Manchuria and Mongolia (p.241)
Forming of the Association of the Detainees (p.243)
Complications of the Matters of Detainment (p.250)
Doubt of the School Textbooks (p.253)
Chapter 9
Break Down of the Soviet (p.258)
初めてのモスコウ訪問 (p.261)
モスコウの変貌 (p.265)
Back Agan to Yelabuga (p.268)
Memorial Monument Where Spirits of Comrades Rest (p.275)
Grave Keeper Did Not Keep the Promise (p.278)
A Gulag Is Now a Police School (p.280)
Meeting the President in Kazan (p.284)
Memorial Service at Khavarovsk (p.289)
Continuing Symposium Between Japan and Russia (p.292)
Appendix
Demanding Apology and Compensation (p.295)
Decision as I became the Director (p.297)
検討懇談会の発足 (p.299)
The final settlement of processing treatment of post war issues (p.311)
Process of the Negotiation with the Russians (p.316)
Expectation of the Foreign Ministry (p.319)
Trace of 33 years of Japan Association of Forced Internees (p.321)
Postscript (p.327)
Recollections
Interviews
Maizuru Museum
1. About families who waited in Japan
2. The Day of Return
Related Documents
Timeline
Women in Siberia
1. Women Taken to Siberia
2. Testimony of a Nurse
3. About Mrs. Fumiko Sakama
Introduction
i. 1945.9-1946.6
ii. 1946.6-1950.7
iii. 1950.7-1950.12
iv. 1950.12-1953
v. 1953-1955.4
vi. Afterwards
After Thoughts
Music
Popular Song 1
1. About "Mother at the Wharf"
2. Lyrics
3. How the Song Came Out
4. Story of Ise Tanno (1899.9.15 – 1981.7.1)
Popular Song 2
1. Youtube Videos
2. About the song, “On the Hill in a Foreign Land”
3. Lyrics
4. Background of This Song
5. Tadashi Yoshida, composer
Song of Siberia
Balalaika Performer: Sho Kitagawa
1. About Go Kitagawa, grandfather
2. Go Kitagawa and Russian Music in Japan
3. Sho Kitagawa (performer of balalaika• conductor of Kitagawa Memorial Russian Folk instrument Orchestra)
4. Music
Bibliography
Takeo Kuba (my uncle)
Takeo Kuba (1923-1986)
