"I don't think you understand me, since you answer only yes and no?"
"I understand your words perfectly. I am Japanese!" answered the lips of Hoshiko, while they slowly smiled. "But your thought—"
"How lucky! For, I suppose here all peoples are mixed."
"Yes. There are all sorts: Russians, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen—"
She was thinking of the allies.
"It looks like Japan."
This was the interior which he was seeing.
"But you think it is China?"
"Yes! Out there it is precisely like the place where we fought."
"Yes," said puzzled Hoshiko.