First of all, the father physically has typical characteristics of Japanese ancestry such as black hair, slanted eyes, thick glasses, thin lips and high cheekbones, and also he represents a symbolic person of Japanese-American who are from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. ... Moreover, in the section "When the Emperor was Divine", the mother traces back to her memories right after her husband is detained that she burns the frame portrait boy's uncle who had once served the Emperor's army, and all of the letters from Kagoshima, which indicates a sensitive...

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