Japanese working mums do four hours of child care and housework each day - eight times as much as their spouses.

We were responsible for them... I mean, we had guarded them the whole time, in the camp and on the march, that was the point, that we had to guard them and not let them escape.

I stipulate to her lack of adult supervision.

"Women in general see themselves as natural caretakers and nurturers," she says.

You look after the luggage while I go to buy the tickets.