![]() ![]() Fumi's decided that the only way to find Sumiko is to write a letter to General MacArthur, and Aya is going to help. The story then weaves together the stories of Aya, Fumi & Sumiko, and Matt Matsumoto, who works for the Occupation forces, translating letters sent to General MacArthur. She makes a friend at school, Fumi, who is trying to solve the mystery of her older sister Sumiko's disappearance. ![]() What's a girl to do when she is repatriated to Japan after the end of WWII, when her family is released from an internment camp and told to go East or go home? Post-war Japan is not a great place still reeling from its wartime experience, still occupied by American forces.Īya Shimamura has to find a way to fit into her new life, while her father is depressed, bitter and distant, and they are both mourning Aya's mother. The Translation of Love / Lynne Kutsukake ![]()
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