Ramba uchiverenga ndima iyi - Hurumende yakatanga chirongwa chokubvisa vanhu nokuzvidira muna December 1943 icho chakakurudzira vakwegura, vana navanaamai vavo kuti vabve mumaguta makuru ndokugara mudzimba dzeshamwari nehama dziri kumaruwa. Zvisinei, hurumende yakapa rubatsiro ruduku kuvagari vemo kuti vabve. Vanhu vashomanene vakabviswa kutozosvikira kudenha kwokutanga kwakaitwa nebhomba guru reAmerica paJapan, kudenha paYawata
, muna June 1944 pashure pacho hurumende yakakurudzira mhuri kuti dzibudise vana vadzo. Somuuyo, vana 459 000 navabereki vavo vakatamira kundogara neshamwari nehama dzokunyama. Nokuda kwemhuri dzisina kuonana mumaruwa, makirasi ezvikoro ose akabudiswa semapoka akaperekedzwa nevadzidzisi vavo; pakasvika August 1944, vana 333 000 vakanga vatamiswa kunzvimbo dzokumaruwa uko vakaramba vachienderera mberi nedzidzo yavo mumisha yokudyira, tembere nedzimwe zvivako zvevoruzhinji. Vamwe vagari vomumaguta 343 000 vakamanikidzwa kusiya misha yavo apo yakaparadzwa kuti igadzire zvigadziro zvemoto; vanhu ava kana vakatamira kumaruwa kana kuti vakagara munzvimbo dzokugara dzenguva pfupi pedyo nenzvimbo yavo yebasa.