Toshiko Akiyoshi Smithsonian Interview Block 84 (Q18037)

Then, after that it was very difficult. Uh, what I understand is this may not be all the gossip, it could be very true. Because when you start thinking about how the Japanese military runs, what I understand was the ones who decided, they had a meeting, they thought maybe ... you know, we were about fifteen and a half years old, all (of) us, to give them (students) poison, instead of them beco ...