Tsuyo obaachan smiled when she remembered that the women in the neighborhood were annoyed at their husbands, blaming them for the earthquake because they hadn’t done enough to prevent the looting of Japanese businesses, and that they defended themselves from such rebuke (“We didn’t do anything”).
Tsuyo obaachan sonríe cuando recuerda que las mujeres de la zona se molestaron con sus esposos, culpándolos de ser los responsables del terremoto por haberse plegado a los saqueos de los negocios japoneses, y que ellos se defendieron de las reprimendas (“nosotros no hicimos nada”).