![]() Specifically, there is a nuclear family comprised of father and mother. Examining the intersections of Japanese and Korean history that influenced Korea-Japan relations at the time, Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family, an ethnography of Zainichi Koreans in 1930s Japan, and a vivid portrayal of human spirit in a time of suffering and survival. The reader knows these characters by their familial role relationships. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood Characters. Ironically, these Koreans fleeing Japanese domination and occupation were named by the Japanese when the father registered his new family name as "Iwamoto." Paradoxically, on that day grandfather, father and son visit their ancestors' gravesite to apologize for losing the name that remained unstated. Korea itself was under Japanese rule from 1910 until Japan surrendered in August of 1945. The absence and importance of the names in the story make the story rich with detail and identity through something as simple as the name of a character. ![]() Kim, names play a major role on the character’s identities. Kim, focuses on a young Korean boy who lives during the Japanese colonization before World War II. In Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood by Richard E. ![]() They are both Christian emigrants known by friends, family and associates that have no name at the beginning of the story. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood, is an extremely valuable novel. He and his young wife flee Korea for Manchuria in the dead of winter. His father was a resistance movement leader who was imprisoned, recently released and just freed from parole. ![]() The main character begins in the story as an unknown year-old baby boy. This work is particularly unusual to the extent that only relatively minor characters have proper names. ![]()
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