喜久夫, 喜久男: a male given name

聞き手: audience, interviewer, listener / 利き手: dominant hand

lumberjack

中々: very, quite, considerably, rather, by no means (with negative verb)

very, quite, considerably, rather / by no means (with negative verb)

inside

the Second Sino-Japanese War

all night

work done for free, unpaid work, uncompensated work / work done in vain, work with no favorable end result

to work for free, to work without pay or other compensation / to work in vain, to work with no favorable end result