Tag: Mariko Kōda ‘04

L08, Mariko Kōda ‘04, Grandmother, 1929, Ōsaka I interviewed my grandmother about the beginning of World War II, when she was only 12 years old. She lived on the outskirts of Ōsaka, so she wasn’t attacked directly. American planes bombed the center of the city in March 1945. She went to school until she was…