【252頁： “子アイントホーフェン”の葬儀】

After Wim's passing, Dr. Ikeda's assistant arrives first. He is a pleasant young man who speaks English well, but he cannot do anything anymore. Shortly thereafter a Sumitomo official physician comes to diagnose Wim's death. The Japanese all act in the same formal way: They enter the room, they stop and then stand at attention. They then walk to the bed, make a deep bow, stand upright as if to say a prayer, bow again, and then stiffly take some steps back; only then do they turn to the people in the room and start talking. The entire household staff appears. Hirata comes quickly too, as well a as Tanaka. Later in the day several other people from Sumitomo come, some from the lab and some from the department of human affairs. Also an important delegation from the Kempe Tai arrives.

The next day goes by in the same way, albeit not as busy because it is the first day of a major air raid. It starts at a quarter past seven in the morning - a time when they have never had 'keikaikeiho' (planes far away) before - and it lasts until a quarter past five in the afternoon. However, it is not constant 'kushukeiho' (air danger alerts) but they are not allowed to burn coals for heat, they can't cook and there are no trams, so no one comes to visit. Later they hear that a carrier ship has ze come so close to Tokyo that small aircraft can reach the city. So far a they have always been attacked by large planes, but this is a completely different type of aircraft. They always come in waves, all in all there ares about 750 aircraft over the city.

【 226頁：遺体を火葬にして遺骨へ】

Sumitomo asks what Beb wants to do with Wim's body. She knows immediately that Wim should be cremated, so that he does not have to remain in this hostile foreign country. The coffin is supposed to arrive the next day, but because of air raids, it is not delivered until 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It is a simple white wooden coffin made of soft smooth Japanese wood. At first his coffin looks very simple but when they later see other coffins, they realize Wim's one is not so bad. In the coffin they find a mat and pads of rice paper. The Japanese do understand how awkward it will be when Japanese men will place Willem in his coffin, so the Dutch men offer to help. They wrap Wim in a sheet with Beb and Wim's monogram on it and they also put a monogrammed pillow under his head. Then Beb, the four children,and the men from the Lels, Levenbach and Leunis families, place Wim in the coffin. It is placed on trestles in Beb and Wim's bedroom and they cover it with a white silk cloth.

【226頁：葬儀の様子】

Meanwhile bouquets arrive from all the families in the house, the staff,the lab, and the president of Sumitomo in Tokyo, Dr. Kadju, altogether about ten bouquets. They are all of the same type: a small bamboo table with legs approximately ten centimeters high with two thick bamboo vases attached on top. In the vases are a few newly budding branches of trees, some carnations and a flowering branch without any leaves but beautiful, entirely unfamiliar flowers, that have a dark red square in the center covered with narrow yellow petals.

【226頁：葬儀の様子とオランダ人捕虜一行内の確執】

Mrs. Leunis and the girls make a garland of flowers and add three of Tineke's hair ribbons, one red, one white and one blue, in such a way that they look like the Dutch flag. The coffin stays throughout the night and the next day and all the Japanese from the house come back to pay their respects. Suddenly a photographer arrives and takes three pictures. Afterwards he is allowed to photograph all the families in the garden, but for the Einthoven family it is of course too late; they are not a complete family any more. On February 17, at four o'clock in the afternoon, five cars arrive. The first one will carry the coffin, the other four cars will take the group, who have not been outside the compound for a whole year, to the crematorium. Annie Lels cannot go, she is still too ill; The Hasenstab family is not invited.

【227頁：骨壺異聞】

Two days later Beb and Henk Lels, accompanied by Takesan and Tanaka, drive to the crematorium to receive the urn with the ashes.　The Japanese made an effort to find a beautiful urn, but it is too fancy,　dark blue with a lot of gold, not appropriate for Wim, so Beb asks for a simpler urn and they bring a plain white cylindrical one. Jan Leunis calls it later 'so technical'. The urn comes in a box of beautifully finished oak and is carried in a white silk cloth with a knot on top. Beb stuffs the inside of the box later with padding to make sure that the urn won't break during travel. While they are waiting for the Japanese trying to find another urn, they can observe their surroundings. They see more new caskets, many for small children which are brought to a special counter. They calmly admire the Buddha statue displayed in the center alcove and some bright green vases displayed in two side alcoves. In front of the beautiful antique objects stands a messy table and two kitchen chairs - such an unusual contrast. They are taken to a side building where the 'undertaker' awaits them and in the tokonoma, a place of honor, stands the box next to a vase of flowers. The Japanese hand over the box while bowing reverently. Henk carries it to the car, where Beb takes it on her lap. At home, Geo Levenbach and Janch Leunis customize a small table, which came with the funeral, with a neat edge so that the box fits tightly. This way the box has its own place in the bedroom that from now on will be occupied by Tineke and Beb.

【342頁：なぜオランダ人捕虜は東京に連れてこられたか？勘違い】

What was the purpose of their stay in Japan? A question that the has posed many times. After the war several attempts are made to answer this question and various theories pass in review. Was the intention to be exchanged for Japanese who were interned in the United States? This is unlikely because the exchange of prisoners of war after mediation by the Swedish or International Red Cross, was halted halfway through 1943. Approximately 2,700 prisoners have been exchanged in this program, including 45 Dutch on Louren?o Marques, an island off the coast of Mozambique. The internees had to be equal in number, gender, education and status.

【342頁：一行の1人が1965年に日本に来ています】

Henk Lels was in Japan in 1965 for a large conference on electronic issues and then tries to obtain more clarity at Sumitomo, but in the usual polite Japanese manner his request is denied.

【343頁：1970年 抑留されていたオランダ人捕虜の1人が来日するも住友の人達とは会えず】

Geo Levenbach tried in 1970 to make direct contact with Sumitomo to find out what the purpose of their stay in Japan was. With his son Frits, Geo had an audience' with Baron Sumitomo. It was not the intention to ask questions or get answers. This was considered a courtesy visit. What Baron Sumitomo was able to tell them, however, was that Wim Einthoven's widow had written a letter that his death was not the fault of Sumitomo, while Geo Levenbach knew for certain that such a letter had never been written. They had to leave again, while constantly bending up and down at the waist.

【344頁：抑留されていたオランダ人捕虜の1人が2001年に来日】

Paulien Lels manages in 2001, through an informal approach,togain access to NEC. She writes: 'In a huge conference room, at the top of the NEC access to NEC (Nippon Electric Company), part of the Sumitomo group building, a special 'reception committee' of anagement, archivists, former employees and in their midst a hale and hearty old gentleman over 90s old, Mr Osawa, who during the war, was the director of the laboratories, where our fathers had been forced to do their work. Standing perfectly erect and with a forceful voice he welcomed us and discussed a number of papers that had been compiled especially for us and discussed the papers together with us. Clear diagrams showed that people were busy setting up a radar system and that is the honest conclusion: the purpose of our stay in Japan was the development ofradar.'

【239頁：空襲が激しくなり名古屋に移動】

In May 1945 the United States demand from the Japanese authorities,via the Swiss embassy in Tokyo, to immediately transfer the prisoners of war to safer areas. Sumitomo realizes that it is no longer able to guarantee the safety of the Dutch group and decides to transfer the group to the Ministry of the Interior. In early May, Hirata visits the Dutch group to pass on this message, and he uses the occasion to tell worry, it　them openly that Holland is truly liberated and adds: 'Don't will not last long.' The desire to return to their families in The Netherlands is sometimes unbearable.