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As I say, the mad doctor, because he was crazy. When we first went to Japan, we used to didn't have to work on Sundays. Some days, you worked Sunday as well. Then you got one Sunday off a month. If he was in charge that day, you'd rather be at work, the beggar. It was a torture to be in. We were in a warehouse, three story warehouse, and he was so torturous towards you. He'd come up, I was on the first floor.
He'd have us count in Japanese. "Louder. More louder." He'd be shouting, and there was three sections on the floor, and he'd have each section counting loud. Then he'd race up the steps to the second one, he'd have them running on the spot. "Faster." You could hear them running on the spot. Then he'd duck down to try to catch us, if we were still counting. It was torturous. Especially if he had been drinking sake. I remember one day I was washing my clothes, and I heard this click, clock, click, clock, click, and I hear a thing.
I didn't know it was him because all he had on, was his naked, he had a fundoshi which are underpants, they'd wear what are called a fundoshi. That's all he had on, this fundoshi. I didn't know he was a mad doctor. Of course, he carried on, he swung me around, whacked me across the face because I didn't salute him. I didn't know, because he's naked. So that was the sort of guy he was, and another time, in the winter time, you were never allowed to have a shower.
We had guys that were good at picking locks. They could pick locks, because the showers were locked up at winter time. These guys would pick the lock, and we'd go and have a shower, all down in the shower, and it's freezing cold. You just dive in, get washed...you're covered in black dust, and in walks mad doctor. Rips off his sword, and he made me stay under that shower, and freezing cold water coming down. He'd make you turn around, so he could whack you across the backside with his sword. He was torturous. Well, apparently, he go hung after the war. I saw the records of the war, and he was one guy that did hang, yeah, from Kobe. The mad doctor...Taki I think his name was. Yeah.
