Essay My Life 50 Years Ago

In Japan nowadays, people think that they can get anything. 50 years ago, things we could easily get now were difficult to get and mostly expensive. Since the Japanese one of the biggest wars throughout history (World War II), it needed a recovery. The government restricted trading to a small amount making things from outside expensive and difficult to get. Everyone in Japan thought that bananas were expensive until the trading of bananas were free of restriction in 1963. Starting off with bananas, other fruits became free of restriction until there was no more restriction in trading.

Most of the Japanese think that people 50 years ago were worked as a forestry, farmer, or a fisher but they were wrong. There is a word in Japanese that most people think the synonym for is farmer but it just meant common people. The kanji for the word is 百姓 (hyaku-shou) and it meant a person with 100 surnames or a person with 100 jobs which also meant ordinary or common people. The reason why most of the people think the word means farmer was

The many wars that Japan was involved in could have changed everything about me. The Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union (1946 ~ 1956). My father or mother or even both of them could have been imprisoned by the Soviet Union and I would have been living with one of my grandparents who would probably die soon. At that time, I would think that my parents were dead because Japan was also wounded because it was right after World War II ended. Joining the Japanese army would probably be the hardest decision of my life but thinking that I have nothing to lose, I would join. Since my body is not as strong as other kids my age, I wouldn’t sign up for any aircraft or ground war. Instead I would sign up for things like the person who stays in the HQ mapping things and telling the soldiers on the field information they need for the