Moving Tale of Second Generation Japanese Americans
Original title
二つの祖国
Released
3/23/2019
Origin country
JP
Genre
Drama
Production companies
TV Tokyo
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
2
Kenji Amo is a 2nd generation Japanese-American. He was born in America, but went to school in Japan. He returned to America to study at UCLA. Now, Kenji Amo works as a reporter for a newspaper in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles. Charlie Tamiya also studied at UCLA with Kenji Amo. Charlie Tamiya has feeling for Nagiko who works with Kenji Amo at the same newspaper company. Knowing that, Kenji Amo holds complicated feelings. At this time, Nagiko's friend Emi Hatanaka asks Kenji Amo to marry her. He accepts her proposal, but the Pacific War begins. Circumstances surrounding Kenji Amo changes.
The Pacific War shatters one Japanese American man's life: while his family are incarcerated in Manzanar, he faces his own brother on the battlefield.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kenji Amoh is sent to an internment camp where Japanese-Americans must declare sole allegiance to the U.S. or Japan.
Kenji visits Hiroshima in the wake of the atomic bombing. Later, he suffers emotional exhaustion when he is assigned to interpret at the Tokyo Trial.
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