Interview 8 - Tomonaga Ijiro and Kondo Tatsumi

Today, I traveled to Kyoto, Japan to meet a unique Japanese hero in the Zombie War. He was an elderly man who survived the aomic bombings but paid with his sight. This loss eventually proved to be a gain for him as this enhanced his other senses. These enhancements allowed him to survive, mainly by himself, during the Zombie War. As I interviewed him, I also got to know his second in command, who he apparently was very close to.

Tomonaga Ijiro was a soldier in the Second World War and only 

experienced the atomic bombings from a distance. But the power of the sight and the light it created blinded him permanently. This immediately made him an outcast in his society and he was disgraced for the rest of his life. Eventually, he could no longer bare this and ran away, thinking he could find peace elsewhere. He settled in Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. Here, he was accepted as the only other people there were other outcasts who had been living there for many generatons. This was where Tomonaga first heard about the zombie war. 

He had been a farmer with these people for many years now and was doi ng his daily duties when he first heard the commotion, something about a man killing his wife and then engulfing her like a wild animal. At first, he turned this down as he had done many other times. But when more of these rumors flew to his ears, he decided he did not want to be a burden to the people there and he fled yet again. This time, he went to the Hiddaka Mountains, a place he studied and learned in depth. One day, he unwittingly cam across a bear. Althugh he could not see it, he felt its presence and heard it quite well. But just as it was about to attack him, it fled. Immediately, he heard a zombie behind him and reduced it to waste with one strike.

This attack made him realize that he did have some purpose in this world. Although he did not know exactly what was going on in the world outside the mountains, he tried to believe that everyone was safe and that peace had been restored. S he waited his time out till he met another human being, always listening to the sounds of wild animals as clues to incoming zombies. One winter, he came upon Kondo tatsumi, who was walking through the woods. Once realizing the actual threat of the zombies from this man, he vowed to keep Japan safe and has lived there ever since.