Kawamura

Kawamura is Yu's comrade from Ise. He fought along side Yu in phillipines. He comes back to Ise and return's Yu's diary to Oshin and Hat-chan. He was very bitter at the military and blamed them for the senseless death of all his friends. He also felt very guilty for returning home alive.

After returning from the war, Kawamura becomes a loan shark and prospers financially.He falls in love with Hat-can and proposes to marry her. Hat-chan explains her past, but Kawamura is ready to overlook it all. Kawamura purchases a land and gifts it to Oshin as he felt guilty for surviving Yu. Moreover he had no family left.

Kawamura is eventually murdered by a person he loaned money. Oshin and Hat-can claim his body and give him a proper funeral. Oshin blamed the war that turned Kawamura very bitter and turned him into a loan shark who played the hard ball.