{"product_id":"somewhere-my-love-paperback","title":"Somewhere My Love - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXiaping Jiang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan announces his country's unconditional surrender to the Allied powers. Tens of thousands of Japanese settlers in a Japanese-controlled region called \"Manchukuo\" are abandoned by their government, which even demands that they demonstrate their loyalty to their emperor by taking their own lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThirteen-year-old Okamura Hanako, a Japanese war orphan, is adopted by a compassionate Chinese couple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1972, relations between China and Japan are normalized, and many Japanese orphans return to Japan, but Hanako declines her father and brother's call to come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuanmu Zhengliang is born in China to Hanako and her husband Ikeda Yao, another Japanese orphan. He is shocked when as an adult he learns of his Japanese ancestry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhengliang meets Tong Xin, an intelligent, principled, and beautiful journalist, and develops feelings for her. He agrees to do an interview with the newspaper she works for, and they decide to write an article about the Japanese orphans of Manchuria. However, while in Japan for an academic exchange program, a lovely doctoral student named Arikawa Kikumiko asks him to remain there with her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHanako is torn between her two homelands, Japan and China, and between her ties to her birth parents and affection for the Chinese parents who adopted her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZhengliang, a descendant of Japanese war orphans, struggles with his identity, \"neither Chinese nor Japanese.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy have two generations of Chinese journalists spared no effort in documenting and tracking the history of the Japanese war orphans?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Japanese are descendants of the Japanese settlers of Manchuria. Why do they gather every year on the outskirts of Tokyo in front of a monument that faces the land where their ancestors lived, singing songs, proclaiming \"Manchukuo is our homeland\"?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 404\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42706312593471,"sku":"9781683725596","price":34.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5a3f9b100c77b1221bd90344141e4e27.webp?v=1765039968","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/somewhere-my-love-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}