Hironari oshiro biography of williams

Ohshiro is one of six siblings; one of his older brothers died of illness, and his other older brother and one of his younger sisters both died in the war.

Ohshiro only just managed to scrape through the conflict with his life.

His older sister, Hisako Kawabata, and his younger sister, Kinuko, still live happily in Okinawa to this day, close to where they all grew up.

Ohshiro’s home lay inside the coastal road. It was a small rural house, part of a village called Sedake.

This tiny hamlet today enjoys relative prosperity by growing turmeric.

Ohshiro’s family was poor, like most others at the time. They were self-sufficient, growing what they could on a small farm. They had nothing to trade for money.

It was a hand-to-mouth existence, each day a struggle to get to the next.

There was no hope of saving for the future.

Ohshiro sees this humble home as both the starting point of his own history and the starting point for the globalisatio