Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Hurumende yakatanga chirongwa chokuzvidira chokubudisa vanhu 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 rinorema reAmerica paJapan,
kurwiswa kweYawata, muna June 1944 pashure pokunge 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 kuti vakatamira kumaruwa kana kuti vakagara munzvimbo dzokugara dzenguva pfupi pedyo nenzvimbo yavo yebasa.