"Of the 722,847 not yet returned home at present, August 1, 1947, 567,060 definitely are living."

"A wife embraces her husband repurged from Siberia and even though she new he was living (alive) she could not be at ease at home until he returned."

From: From: Ichiokunin no Showashi, Vol. 3 (Three Generations of Women). Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, June, 1981.