Trace the route from Fukuoka to Kyoto . Circle Kyoto . Locate and circle Aomori, Japan . Mother returns with news that both sets of grandparents died during the war. Mother dies same day in railroad station.
Girls find a room upstairs in a factory.
The new year comes and they are still on their own. Trace the route from Kyoto to Maizuru . Hideyo, the brother, finally escapes Korea and makes it to Kyoto in early Spring and is reunited with his sisters. Hideyo's journey to Japan is another story within the larger story. Sent to work in ammunition factory.