So Far From The Bamboo Grove
Watkins's book takes place in the last days of 35 years of Korea's annexation by Japan. An elev-year-old Japanese girl, Yoko Kawashima, whose father works for the Japanese governmt, must leave her home in Nanam, part of northern Korea, as her family escapes south to Seoul, th to Busan, to return to Japan.
The story begins with Yoko Kawashima (and her mother, brother and sister) living in Nanam. Yoko is 11 years old and living in North Korea during World War II while their father works as a Japanese governmt official in Manchuria, China. As the war draws towards a close, Yoko and her family realizes the danger of their situation and attempts to escape back to Japan as communist troops close in on North Korea.
Her brother, Hideyo, also tries to leave but he is separated from his family because he has to serve at an ammunition factory for six days a week. The wom of the family board a train to Seoul using a letter from a family diplomat but their trip is cut short by a bomb 45 miles away from Seoul. Yoko is injured from the bombing and the wom are forced to walk the rest of the way. After receiving medical treatmt in Seoul, Yoko, her sister, and mother board a train to Busan, and th a ship to Japan.
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Wh Yoko, her sister Ko, and her mother reach Fukuoka, Japan, it is not the beautiful, comforting, welcoming place Yoko dreamed of. Once again, they find themselves living in a train station scrounging in the garbage for food to survive. Evtually, Yoko's mother travels to Kyoto to find her family. She th leaves for Aomori to seek help from their grandparts who she discovers are both dead. Their mother dies on the same day, leaving Yoko and Ko waiting for their brother Hideyo. Their mother's last words were to keep their wrapping cloth where she had hidd money for her childr.
Yoko begins to attd a new school where she ters and wins an essay contest with a cash prize. News of her winning the contest is reported in the newspaper. Hideyo and the Korean family who took bid farewell and Hideyo finally reaches Busan where he finds the message left to him by Yoko. After reaching Japan, he sees signs with his name and Yoko and Ko's address. While asking directions from locals, he is spotted by Yoko and they are reunited.
A Korean version of this book titled Yoko iyagi (요코이야기, Yoko's tale) was published in 2005 and sold 4, 000 copies of the first printing.
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A Japanese version of this book, Takebayashi haruka tōku: Nihonjin shōjo Yōko no ssō taikki (竹林はるか遠く : 日本人少女ヨーコの戦争体験記, Bamboo grove far distant: Japanese girl Yōko's war experice account) became available in June 2013.
The issue came to head after 2006, wh 13 parts of Korean-American studts in a Greater Boston community urged the book be removed from the glish curriculum of Dover-Sherborn Middle School, resulting in the conving of a review committee that included the middle school librarian and two glish teachers, which recommded removing the book from school curriculum in November 2006.
A hearing in the Dover-Sherborn Regional School Committee was later held which took no action and instead referred the matter to a subcommittee for review. The book was later kept in the curriculum to be used in tandem with other books on Korean history for a more balanced experice.
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The parts' have complained that the book is racist and sexually explicit containing historical inaccuracies that whitewashed Japanese atrocities against Koreans during the Japanese Occupation. During the hearing of the School Committee on the proposed book ban one part said he didn't think rape and other war atrocities were appropriate subject matter for young childr. Wh talking of a sce in the book where a Japanese girl is being raped by a Korean man, the part brought up worries that this would lead childr to have a certain impression of Korean m, saying, The first impression you imprint in a child's mind is typically very hard to erase.
Also weighed in, stating that the Korean minority were being portrayed as the bad guys, ev though Japan was the one who had occupied Korea.
Although some staunch supporters of the book were teachers and parts who saw the issue as a matter of literary csorship rather than historical revisionism and distortion, the middle school headmaster who was on the book review committee said the panel struggled with its recommdation adding that there wasn't ough time in school to properly explore the issues raised by the book. Other supporters who coalesced around anti-csorship issue were Kathy Glick-Weil, presidt of the Massachusetts Library Association and director of the Newton Free Library, and Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom.
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In 2009, Korean-American school parts submitted a complaint to the California Departmt of Education regarding inclusion of So Far From the Bamboo Grove in the school curriculum on grounds that the novel contained historical inaccuracies, including accounts of Japanese female victims of rape perpetrated by Koreans. The state of California gave school parts an opportunity to offer opinions and ultimately decided to remove the novel as a school curriculum option in the state. Around 50 K-12 Korean-American studts who attded the Young Korean American Academy wrote letters to the state education offices and publishers asking for greater exposure of Korean history and culture, with McGraw-Hill sding back a response letter promising to implemt studts' requests.
Wh this book was published in Korea as Yoko iyagi (요코 이야기, Yoko's tale) in 2005, the sales were brisk partly due to a sales copy that said why was this book banned in China and Japan?, but there was not much discernible social uproar about it.
The situation completely changed in 2007, wh it became a target of intse debate in Korea and in the United States. This developmt was triggered by the protests lodged by Korean-American studts in the Greater Boston area in September 2006.
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Ev prior to the Dover-Sherborn Middle School's decision to suspd the book, there have be other challges tracked by the American Library Association,
Some of which have be successful in removing the book from the curriculum and reading lists. Rye Country Day School in New York had acted swiftly by banning the book in September, 2006.
Watkins said that she had no inttion of disregarding the history of Korea and apologized for any hard feelings felt by Korean readers. She stated her inttion was to portray her childhood experices in a softer way for young readers, and died the accusations made by the Korean newspapers.
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The Korean media has characterized her book as autobiographical fiction. It has believed there are several points of historical inaccuracies in her account. Certain Korean historians (unspecified) charge that some of her narrated incidts are imagined. However, the author insists she wrote her experice as she remembered it.
There are many descriptions in this work that make it hard to believe that the author was born and raised in Korea and Japan at that time. Wh the author's brother tried to volunteer to become a naval aviator and his mother objected with insisting that he must consult with his father, he insisted that he was 18-year-old and so was able to decide for himself what to do with his life. This is completely sse of American people. Under the patriarchal systems (家長制) of Japan and Korea at that time, such a thing was impossible. Furthermore, the Constitution of Japan was amded with the Allied forces' occupation and democratization of Japan after the Pacific War, and the patriarchal system was legally abolished in 1947 because that system became contrary to the new Constitution. And the age of majority was newly set at 20 years old, which lasted until 2022. Therefore, ordinary Japanese people never make such a mistake. Therefore her memories cannot be believed, although she claimed that she had grown up in Korea, had returned to Japan at the age of 11, and later had married in Japan.
The author also claimed that her sister's name Ko is writt as 好 in Chinese characters and her brother's name Hideyo is 淑世 in Japanese edition, but these are said to have be very unnatural for Japanese names of the time. It is highly possible the author was a person who was very familiar with Japanese language and Chinese characters but not with Japan itself.
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It is said there are several strange places in the author's family register which she insisted she had gott in Japan in 1952 before immigrating to the United States. Therefore, it may have be forged.
Watkins gives in her book an account of sighting U.S. B-29 bombers (idtified as that type by Mr. omoto). This has be characterized as suspect, since according to historians, there were no bombing in the area in July or August 1945. Watkins retorted that she did not go so far as to say these airplanes bombarded her hometown of Nanam (Rannam), but that she had simply witnessed them fly over.
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