Tamami Watanabe was 7 when her father died in 1945 in the Philippines while fighting for Japan, and her memories of him are fading.
As a child, Watanabe could remember her father's face clearly and the clothes he wore. But now when she tries to recall his face, the only image she has is his photograph.
Her father, who ran a shipping business, was ordered by the state to deliver supplies to war zones overseas. When he arrived in the Philippines, he was mustered into an army unit and died only about three months later.
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