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The people with radiation sickness feel bad if they just go for walks as prescribed by their doctors, hence the fishing and fishponds which let them be out doing quiet, light activities without being called laggards. In the war those who didn't at least help to prepare the food feel bad, they need to help out, their sense of obligation runs deep. Their need to pay respect to their dead as well shows this.
There are two storylines, Yasuko is trying to get married but there is worry from all that she is also sick with radiation poisoning. In the end she does get sick and her marriage is called off.
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