The author’s parents were born in Showa 33 and 34 (1959 and 1960), but back when the parents were children, wasn’t it still a burnt-out wasteland from the postwar air raids...
The author's parents were born in Showa 33 and 34 (1959 and 1960), but I have a memory of hearing them say that, back when they were children, there were still places where the makeshift shacks from the postwar reconstruction of the scorched-earth firebombing damage remained, so a little while ago, when an NHK morning drama (NHK’s morning serial) had a setting with the historical background around when my parents were kids, I brought that up, only to be told they had never once seen any such shacks. Or, when I asked, Weren’t there lots of people sleeping up on the luggage racks in trains back in the day? I was told they had never once seen that either. However, there are also reverse cases: there have been claims of having no memory of a time when you could freely smoke cigarettes in train cars, and, in response, rebuttals like, Old trains had ashtrays attached. On this point, my mother remembers that back in the day everyone and their cat was smoking, and even now she is a pretty serious cigarette-hater. Meanwhile, my father says that in the past it was common to see disabled war veterans missing hands or legs, who, for one reason or another, could not receive pensions or military annuities, and who would often engage in begging, and that my grandmother, whenever she saw a disabled war veteran, would always give them some money. ○ The red-and-white of the Genji and Heike (Minamoto clan and Taira clan) should have been Genji as red and Heike as white, but now it’s Genji as white and Heike as red. Or, in a similar vein though a completely different era, there are reporters of experiences that Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen’s costumes were reversed, and also reporters who say Hosokawa Katsumoto and Yamana Mochitoyo of the Onin War (a 15th-century civil war in Kyoto) got reversed.
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.