Word: fumiko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Relocation Center in California. Switching angles and changing focuses, splicing bits and pieces sharp as shards, he re-creates their barbed world in a manner often confusing but finally effective. With their mother dispatched to another relocation camp i,n Montana, the father has abdicated his paterfamilias function. Instead, Fumiko, an older married sister, tries to hold the assorted family together: Ruby, a 13-year-old kid sister who becomes pregnant; Napoleon, her kid brother who dreams of becoming a Navy bombardier; Chuichi, a bitter boy who has been summarily dropped out of an American Army paratroop unit. Harold...
...Married. Fumiko Higashikuni, 21, eldest granddaughter of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Kazutoshi Omura, 28, an executive with Hitachi Metals, Ltd.; in a Shinto ceremony; in Tokyo...