gwendy85
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- 30 Aug 2005
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Hello guys!
I know it's been a while since I posted here. To the few who remember, I'm writing a novel set in the 1940s, with a male Japanese lead. As time went on, I dug further into character development and decided to have his mother as half-Japanese...a reason why she and her mother were ostracized and forced to move out of their town in Hokkaido to start a new life in Yakushima.
This stemmed from something I read about, if you were only part Japanese, you're still considered a foreigner (remember, this was the 1940s). I'm thinking the half-Japanese mother to be either part Russian or part Chinese, maybe even Korean (I have to research more on this though, 1905 something). The son (1/4 foreign blood) knows about his foreign ancestry but was forced to hide it, causing him shame as he grew up, and with tensions running high against other countries during that time. It's one of the reasons why he was compelled to join in the war effort, to prove how true of a Japanese he was (prove it more to himself since it's a secret that he's part foreign).
All I'm asking is, would these situations, attitudes and traits be accurate for people of that time? Appreciate the input
I know it's been a while since I posted here. To the few who remember, I'm writing a novel set in the 1940s, with a male Japanese lead. As time went on, I dug further into character development and decided to have his mother as half-Japanese...a reason why she and her mother were ostracized and forced to move out of their town in Hokkaido to start a new life in Yakushima.
This stemmed from something I read about, if you were only part Japanese, you're still considered a foreigner (remember, this was the 1940s). I'm thinking the half-Japanese mother to be either part Russian or part Chinese, maybe even Korean (I have to research more on this though, 1905 something). The son (1/4 foreign blood) knows about his foreign ancestry but was forced to hide it, causing him shame as he grew up, and with tensions running high against other countries during that time. It's one of the reasons why he was compelled to join in the war effort, to prove how true of a Japanese he was (prove it more to himself since it's a secret that he's part foreign).
All I'm asking is, would these situations, attitudes and traits be accurate for people of that time? Appreciate the input