The narrator's father was 'associated with the military', and was part of an anti-Tojo movement in the Kanto Army to promote General Ishiwara; after the plan failed, he returned to the village on New Year's Day 1943 and shut himself up in the storehouse. There he wore the goggles later used by the narrator and used headphones to listen to a radio.
The narrator's father was involved with the military and opposed Tojo Hideki; after his plan failed, he retreated to a storage room where he donned goggles and listened to the radio through headphones.