 She and her brother joined a group of people foraging for food in the countryside to resell in the city, and there she met a Korean man who gave her another job selling soap.She did this for two and a half years, when in the summer of 1952 her brother contracted intestinal tuberculosis and was hospitalized.His penicillin shots were 600 yen each, and Masuda soon realized that the only way to make enough money for them was to start prostituting.