By Haruki Murakami
ISBN-10: 0099448572
ISBN-13: 9780099448570
Transforming into up within the suburbs in post-war Japan, it looked as if it would Hajime that everybody yet him had brothers and sisters. His sole spouse used to be Shimamoto, additionally an merely baby. jointly they spent lengthy afternoons hearing her father's list assortment. but if his relatives moved away, the 2 misplaced contact. Now Hajime is in his thirties. After a decade of drifting he has came upon happiness together with his loving spouse and daughters, and luck working a jazz bar. Then Shimamoto reappears. She is gorgeous, extreme, enveloped in secret. Hajime is catapulted into the prior, placing in danger all he has within the current.
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He called in Yoshida once or First Encounters 17 twice but almost invariably let the Japanese take the initiative if they wanted to see him. " He had no social contacts with any Japanese, although he did not object to others on his staff doing so. He did not impose any broad restrictions against "fraternizing" with the Japanese. The general did not travel about the country. He did take one long sightseeing ride around downtown Tokyo in the early days of the occupation, and he occasionally motored to the airport ten miles away to greet senior visitors.
2I The Tenno called on the supreme commander a week later. The visit was the emperor's idea and broke with court tradition: emperors had often received foreign dignitaries but had never called on them. With a 24 Enemies Face to Face small retinue he drove the short distance from the palace to the American Embassy in midmorning, stopping for traffic lights, unlike the general, for whom the Tokyo lights were always turned green. The emperor was ushered into the embassy residence and presented to MacArthur, who led him into a large reception room.
At their first meeting, on September 13, MacArthur held forth on the evils of Japan's prewar nationalist zealots. " MacArthur did not respond to this dire advice, which was much like what Konoe said to the emperor eight months before. Instead, the general asserted that the constitution should be revised and suggested to Konoe that he was still young enough to lead liberal elements in the country. 11 At MacArthur's behest several staff officers met with Konoe and passed on suggestions for constitutional change.
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