The house where Harada grew up

Harada's mother barely survived the war.
She left her parents' house in Kiryu and headed to Maebashi, which was a little far away.
When she was young and single, she lived and worked at restaurants and inns.
Eventually she ran a small bar.

On the train, she met Tsutomu, Harada's father.
However, Tsutomu did not marry Harada's mother, but married another woman.
Harada's mother burst into Tsutomu's wedding with a kitchen knife and took out her anger on Tsutomu.

However, Harada was born.

Harada's mother was unmarried, so she tied young Harada to a pillar in her room and continued to work as a liquor store owner every night.

When she starts her water business, she is bound to come into contact with the local yakuza group.
At this time, she was asked by the Yakuza family (Gunma Iizuka-gumi) to help hide her corpse and gun.
(Iizuka family is now a construction company)

What's more, there was a large exhaust vent from a pachinko center next to Harada's shabby house at the time, and as a young child Harada inhaled the smog every day, he developed asthma that would never fully go away.

After Harada was born, Harada's mother quit her job as a yakuza and male bar owner, moved to a pollution-free town, and ran a new Japanese-style inn.

Old Japanese inns are characterized by brightly colored maze-like architecture with red corridors, intricate structures, and various decorations.

After Harada's mother died, the inn where he grew up was dismantled and sold, and it no longer exists.

These photos were taken by Harada before the house was demolished.