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ID Code 9201-0169
Artifact Name Diary
Donor MIYASHO Koji
Receiving Date 2019/11/11
Size (W×H×D) (mm) 100×135×40
Distance from the Hypocenter(m) 780
Number 1
Location Tokaichi, Nakahiro areas
Description Items left by Isamu Miyasho
Donated by Koji Miyasho
Isamu Miyasho (then 56), the director of the local office in Asa County, went missing after he had left for the Prefectural Government Office. The next day, the 7th, his wife, Chisato (then 54), found and identified his body based on his bag under his waist and its contents.

Excerpt from memoir written by Chisato
I couldn't go into the city on that day, so I went searching for him on the morning of the next day, the 7th.
I was stopped in my tracks by the tragic and hellish spectacle of corpses covering the burnt fields. But I recovered and began calling out Isamu's name as I searched for him among the dead and the living who were on the trains. But I couldn't find him.
Disappointed, I returned home in a daze. Then, my husband's nephew came to tell me that he had found a body that looked like his uncle. I went to the streetcar transfer station in Tokaichi, where I found his body at the end of the road. It appeared that someone who had tried to rescue him had covered his body with a sheet of corrugated metal.
His body was burned all over, and it was a horrible sight. I couldn't bring myself to look at him.
All of his clothes were burnt, but there was a bag under his body. Inside the bag I found my husband's diary, business card holder, armband, lunch box, and a few other items.
The cover of the business card holder was burnt, but all of the cards remained inside, so I was able to identify the body.
On the morning of the 8th, we used a hand-drawn large cart to take him to the crematory in Mitaki. I cried as we cremated his body.
I will never stop praying for a peaceful world in which such a tragic and inhumane thing could never happen again.

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