In 1947, after the war, his family moved from Dalian City back to Japan, where he lived between the ages of 15 and 18 in his aunt's house in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
終戦後の1947年、大連市から一家で日本に引き揚げ、15歳から18歳までを山口県宇部市の伯母の持ち家で過ごした。