Reportage on the late Yasumi Shimizu, founder of J. F. Oberlin Academy

A customer told us.

The late author Tomoko Yamazaki wrote a reportage about the late Yasumi Shimizu, founder of Oberlin College, titled "Chaoyangmon Gai no Niji" (Rainbow Outside the Choyang Gate).

The late Yasumi Shimizu founded the school from a children's home in China before the war, and after the school was confiscated following the defeat in World War II, he returned to Japan and further established Oberlin Academy.

In his early years in China, the late Anzo Shimizu lived in the favelas, and the story of how Rokushinganhe saved the life of a Chinese child was described in Rainbow Outside the Changyang Gate. Rainbow outside Zhangyang Gate was published based on a book written by the late Anzo Shimizu.

I would like to inform you of the book, though it is presumptuous of me, in the hope that it may be of some help."

Rainbow outside the gate of Jangyang, p. 43

However, it must be said that the reality of children's life in China, which was more severe than expected, made him open a Sunday school.

On a hot summer night a few months after he moved into his house outside Xiao Xi Bian Men, he heard a sharp cry of sadness coming from the house next door, followed by the sobbing of the women. Yasumi went to visit the house and found that a boy of seven or eight years old had passed away.

However, when Yasumi looked at him, she found that he had not yet died, although he was still unresponsive. In his faltering Chinese, he asked if there was a doctor.　　He replied, "I can't call a doctor because I don't have money.

Yasumi went back to his house, brought some medicine Rokushingan, which was a common medicine in Japan at that time, cracked the child's mouth open, and somehow got him to swallow a grain of it. After about 30 minutes, the child's face, which had been stiff, relaxed, and he was breathing again, and within an hour he was completely revived.



In this dark world of coronas, we hope that the fact that such a medicine exists will reassure people.

Thank you, Mr. Matsuoka.