How Did Kobayashi's People During The Hibiya Riots?

Kobayashi’s family had become acquainted with the Okamotos, who owned a fabric store and whose youngest daughter, Akane, was four years younger than Kobayashi. His social and financial status was not impressive, but he had a stable job and was an amicable man, so when Kobayashi began calling on Akane, her family had no objections. In the winter of 1899 they married, and by fall of the next year Akane bore their first child; a boy, named Shinji. In 1902, their daughter Umeko was born. Akane, like her husband, also grew up without the proper nutrition of given well-rounded diet, leaving her quite frail as an adult. Pregnancy and childbirth placed nearly unbearable stress upon her weak body. Akane and Shinji were the only children of the Kobayashi
His eye-witness testimony of the rioting survives as one of the few first-hand recollection of the rioting that would become known as one of the most notorious protests of the century. In the years that follow, Kobayashi becomes a regular visitor to Hibiya Park, covering the many protests that occur there. As he continued to follow the trail of social discord in Japan, Kobayashi became increasingly concerned about the oppressive nature of the Japanese police force and the state’s control of the populace, and the High Treason Incident of 1910 only served to reaffirm his worries. As he witnessed what seemed to him to be the indiscriminate arrest of leftists, Kobayashi had some inkling that the Japanese state was becoming more intolerant of political
The devastation wrought by the Tokyo Air Raids of 1945 would claim the lives of both eldest sister and her family, as well as his own daughter. His wife would survive, as would his son and his family, carrying on the Kobayashi name. The life of Kobayashi Satoshi spanned an era before the entire world was plagued by war, but still Japan was struggling with trials of its own. The work of Kobayashi, preserved in the Archives of the Asahi Shimbun and the National Diet Library, forever stands as a testament to those Japanese who rose up in the name of their beliefs, as well as the tireless work of the man who strove to record their truth as his world crumbled around