In his third year at Fuji, the Pacific was engulfed in war, and the Japanese military sent many older students in the humanities division to serve in "kamikaze" suicide attack squadrons.
高校 3 年級時，太平洋戰爭已白熱化，日軍一心求勝，許多讀文科的學長被徵調編入以自殺攻擊震驚國際的「神風特攻隊」；讀理科的學長也必須到兵工廠「勤勞奉仕服務」半年。