To make ends meet, he went to work at a munitions factory and a charcoal company office. But as the war ground on and people grew more destitute, Japanese increasingly discriminated against foreigners.
為了生活，他到軍事工廠、木炭事務所工作，但長期戰爭導致民生凋弊，讓日本人對外來者相當排斥，他曾經因找不到工作，被房東趕出門。