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...Libby's own smarts extend beyond politics. In 1996, while in private practice as an attorney in Washington, he published a novel called The Apprentice, about a young man named Setsuo in turn-of-the-century Japan who becomes enmeshed in a web of crime, political drama, and, of course, love. Of all the characters in the book, it's the mysterious object of Setsuo's affections-"the girl in the cloak"-who seems to parallel Libby most now. Publishers Weekly said in its review of The Apprentice that "her actions, history and motives remain ambiguous...
Norma and Setsuo Dairiki chose the Stanford community because their three children live in the area and because they wanted to be close to Setsuo's alma mater. The 81-year-old retired engineer is eager to take music and theater classes at the college and watch the school's basketball and football games. In 1942 the Dairikis were sequestered in a camp as part of the U.S.'s wartime internment of the Japanese, and Setsuo missed his Stanford graduation. "We could only take what we could carry," Norma, 77, says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed...
Last year Hiroshima Mayor Setsuo Yamada asked the U.S. embassy in Tokyo for information about the American victims. None was forthcoming. "If it is only possible to get any of these identified," he says, "I would ask our municipal assembly to take steps to enable us to enshrine them in the cenotaph in our Peace Park...
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