Ētarō Ishibashi
While at Hyosung High School, he meet Senri Sakurai, who was a senior, and Hiroshi Inuzuka, a third-year student. In 1944, due to the intensification of Allied air raid attacks in Japan, he moved to the Jōshinji Temple in Setagaya with his mother and his maternal grandfather. That same year, he learned for the first time that his father, who had been told he had died, survived from natural causes.