**-I had no freedom with respect to society or on the island; I had no privacy; the old had power**

Listener: After moving here, what was difficult?

20) Yamamoto: I came here in 1952, and what I considered a very severe living situation continued both psychologically and physically for decades. Until the 1980s, I feel like there were some questionable aspects of the living situation at the sanatorium, at least in the case of Ōshima.

The most difficult part of this was the lack of freedom. We were restrained and were legally prohibited from leaving the island, and even on the island there was no recognition of privacy. The older people had all the power, and so there was no freedom either with respect to society or in terms of life on the island. That was the most difficult thing to accept.
