Dear Saito Yuta,

January 22, send out ship for interview. February 9^th afternoon, actually arrived after letter. I am anxious that this letter will come today or tomorrow. I wait for you. According to your note my father looks like he is sick. After the result was good. I wish he wouldn’t be anxious about everything and would recover his good health. I am good so you don’t need to be worried about me. Shibutani Hachido seems to come back but in fact, I think he didn’t come back. According to an order he was a soldier by Taisho Ten. The soldier who came back, I think Hachido. Ishama Kenichido has been a soldier for ten years. Another soldier who came back first and a note came today. My baggage check and my physical were not so severe. At Yamagata station or Uro harbor [they] had a big welcome for us from some groups and marching bands. It was prosperous. Now at Nishiama station my family came but it is very quiet at [cannot translate]. That was very loud from the sound of cannon balls but it seemed to end yesterday. In the middle of February it seemed to move from the north to the southeast in the heart of the mountains. Today the map which showed the neighborhood got handed out. The next time that place where I visit is quiet but there are many enemies there. Then we put police there the first time. Nishiama station built at the mountain and [don’t know] I think so. According

To be continued….