But Forde's hardships are far from over.
So for most Japanese, these hardships are entirely new.
Yet their numbers and hardships are often overlooked.
For ordinary Americans, financial hardships are a daily struggle.
North Korea's economic hardships are deepening, as are its conflicts with the outside world.
External threats justify North Korea's paranoia and enforced isolation, whatever hardships are imposed on its people.
"When you work 11 hours a day as a waiter, the hardships are dry and depriving, and they need relief".
In the 1944 case, a divided court approved the internments, saying that "hardships are part of war".
Protests against the government, many against economic reforms that Peruvians say have deepened their hardships, are a constant headache.
Recent refugees, scholars of North Korea and South Korean government officials see no signs that the economic hardships are pointing toward political instability.
Other times, the financial and social hardships are so great in suburbia that some couples opt against divorce despite troubled marriages.
