Thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister live in abject poverty in Japan at the end of World War II. When the clog factory warehouse they call home is destroyed by fire, their lives become even more desperate, particularly when Yoko's sister, Ko, is injured and must be hospitalized and her brother, Hideyo, is accused Sequel to. Thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister live in abject poverty in Japan at the end of World War II. When the clog factory warehouse they call home is destroyed by fire, their lives become even more desperate, particularly when Yoko's sister, Ko, is injured and must be hospitalized and her brother, Hideyo, is accused of murder. 'Beautifully direct and emotionally honest.'

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-Publishers Weekly, starred review. 4 stars!In Mein Bruder, meine Schwester und Ich, the author Yoko Kawashima Watkins tells us her story as a refugee in Japan after WWII. Together with her older brother and sister, she is struggeling to survive in poverty and is desperately hoping for her father to come back to the family.

I still enjoyed reading this books, but I guess that I somehow liked it a little more as a teenager. I now missed a few more details on the gerneal situation of Korean refugees in Japan and on the political 4 stars!In Mein Bruder, meine Schwester und Ich, the author Yoko Kawashima Watkins tells us her story as a refugee in Japan after WWII. Together with her older brother and sister, she is struggeling to survive in poverty and is desperately hoping for her father to come back to the family. I still enjoyed reading this books, but I guess that I somehow liked it a little more as a teenager. I now missed a few more details on the gerneal situation of Korean refugees in Japan and on the political situation within the country after WWII.

I still suffered a lot with the main characters and I was full of anger about some of the unjustice and hatred they encoutered. This was a direct continuation of the previous book, So Far from the Bamboo Grove. At some point Yoko laments that only bad things seem to happen to them, and it does seem that woes are heaped on their heads and frail shoulders. Between the bullying at school - at all levels - and other incidents (I don't want to create a spoiler), it is quite impressive how well these children fared. Yoko does point out that she has been rewarded for her endurance and perseverance by the support of her brother This was a direct continuation of the previous book, So Far from the Bamboo Grove. At some point Yoko laments that only bad things seem to happen to them, and it does seem that woes are heaped on their heads and frail shoulders.

Between the bullying at school - at all levels - and other incidents (I don't want to create a spoiler), it is quite impressive how well these children fared. Yoko does point out that she has been rewarded for her endurance and perseverance by the support of her brother and sister and other friends. An interesting sequel to the story. SIMON PULSE no level2. 10/24=60min, 10/25=180min, 10/28=90min3.

River, move, sister, operation, father, happy, marriage4. (a)The young man was quick to answer. ' I want you to know, I did not start the war. We were unfortunately involved! Think about it.' He turned around sharply and took off.

All the way homw, I thought of his words.(b)The young mas was the American soldier who was in a militaly base in Japan. I completely agree with his thought. No one want to start war but 1. SIMON PULSE no level2. 10/24=60min, 10/25=180min, 10/28=90min3.

River, move, sister, operation, father, happy, marriage4. (a)The young man was quick to answer. ' I want you to know, I did not start the war. We were unfortunately involved!

Think about it.' He turned around sharply and took off. All the way homw, I thought of his words.(b)The young mas was the American soldier who was in a militaly base in Japan.

I completely agree with his thought. No one want to start war but the global situation and a foolish government always make us to join war and kill other people. Recently, many controversial things like the approval of the right to collective defence have happened in Japan. Then, I want to say for both sides of the controvesial things that to stop war in the future, all Japanese people should think of the world affairs and discuss not emotionally but calmly. We can stop war if we keep trying to make peaceful world.5. As soon as I finished reading, I was really impressed with this great book. And I was especially excited and felt so happy with the scene that Yoko and her siblings met their father at a plathome because I thought he died in Russia by soldiers already.

What I learned from this book is so many. So I can't tell everything but the last thing I learned is that parents are so important and irreparable.

Although I live with both motehr and father, I have not been greateful about being with paratents. But now, I really appreciate the exsistence of parents and respect them. These days, many youths complain to their parents　or speak evil of them.

I think they should appreciate their parents because it is too late to do it after the parents died. Thanks to parents, we live now.1. SIMON PULSE no level2. 10/2=30min, 10/05=60min3. Postwar, together, birthday, fire, sister, injured, urn4.(a) Suddenly Ko shouted. 'Mother's ashes, sword, wrapping-cloth bundle!'

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Just as Hideyo ran out, Ko vanished inside. She was so fast, Hideyo could not stop her.

'Don't go up!' U screamed at the top of my voice. Hideyo ran to catch Ko, but he was stopped by the policeman. I chased after Ko, too, but I was held tightly by a volunteer fireman.

My stomach churned to think of my sister burning to death in the blaze. I kept screaming Ko's name.(b) I was surprized at the scene.There was a urn, sword and wrapping-cloth bundle inside a burning house.

All of them are so important things for Ko, Hideyo and Yoko because the things are memento of their mother. Ko burst into the house to take the things out although the house was furiously burning.

If I were in the her position, I'm wondering whether I did like her or not. Maybe I don't have enough courage to enter the burning house thoug I really love my mother.5.

I've not have much time to read a book for some reasons recently. I would like to read a lot as usual though. This book is so interesting for me because I've read the first volume thanks to Sophie. A lot of difficulties hit Yoko and her siblings after returning Japan.

I recognize how happy I am and how awful life they live. I think we, students, should know how elderly people lived the serious life. Summary:This book is about a Japanese family who lived in Korea during World War 2. After the war ended, Yoko, her mother, and Ko her sister, moved to Kyoto, Japan. The mother died on a train station platform, so the sisters were forced to fend for themselves in the poverty plagued city. The sisters lived in an abandoned warehouse, once the sisters are settled into the warehouse their brother shows up briefly.

Shortly after his arrival, the warehouse burns down in which Ko is severely injured. Summary:This book is about a Japanese family who lived in Korea during World War 2. After the war ended, Yoko, her mother, and Ko her sister, moved to Kyoto, Japan. The mother died on a train station platform, so the sisters were forced to fend for themselves in the poverty plagued city. The sisters lived in an abandoned warehouse, once the sisters are settled into the warehouse their brother shows up briefly. Shortly after his arrival, the warehouse burns down in which Ko is severely injured.

The family is framed and charged with Arson, theft, and theft. Yoko and Ko spend the next couple of years tracking down those responsible for the fire. Once those responsible were arrested and their names cleared, Yoko and Ko move into Mrs. Minato’s house, a local “philantropist” by Yoko’s words. After living with Mrs.

Minato for a couple of months, their father, who is in a POW camp in Siberia, started mailing the sisters letters teasing at his arrival. After the father arrives, he dies shortly after arriving from diseases and wounds from his time in Siberia. Once their father dies, Yoko and Ko make the decision to marry and move to America to escape the pain and suffering they endured in post-war Kyoto. Yoko changes a lot from the beginning in Korea, where she was a dependent, and defenseless girl.

Through the adversity she faced as an impoverished and disadvantaged refuge, she matured beyond her years while becoming a leader who is selfless when it comes to the protection of her family, ultimately becoming a strong, independent woman. Japan and the United States share a common culture of only helping the poor through charity.

In Japan, the only person who helped Yoko and Ko in their time of need was Mrs. Minato, a local “philantropist” in Yoko’s eyes. While this is true in American culture as well because there are more charity organizations helping the poor rather than the government. While it is true the governments of both nations help the poor, the culture in both nations supplies only a select amount of poor people with the aid they need to survive. This true story opens in the last days of WWII, with Yoko being the main character, who is 13.

Her family has to flee Northern Korea where they live, and after they arrive back at Kyoto their mother dies, leaving Yoko, Hideo (21), her brother, and Ko, an older sister.They have no idea where their father is, as he was in the army in Manchuria.They are extremely poor with little food. While they are staying in a warehouse, it is set on fire and Ko is injured.Hideyo and Yoko go to care for Ko at This true story opens in the last days of WWII, with Yoko being the main character, who is 13. Her family has to flee Northern Korea where they live, and after they arrive back at Kyoto their mother dies, leaving Yoko, Hideo (21), her brother, and Ko, an older sister.They have no idea where their father is, as he was in the army in Manchuria.They are extremely poor with little food. This continuation of So far from the Bamboo Grove took a while to impress. While I don't at all doubt the historicity of what Kawashima Watkins experienced, it sometimes all seemed too much. Mostly the attitudes of the Sagano girls, and that's despite having experience of bullying. But once I settled into it, (and was reminded that they were living in Kyoto, which apparently was not bombed during the war (which was why Mrs Kawashima left her daughters there while she journeyed north to her This continuation of So far from the Bamboo Grove took a while to impress.

While I don't at all doubt the historicity of what Kawashima Watkins experienced, it sometimes all seemed too much. Mostly the attitudes of the Sagano girls, and that's despite having experience of bullying. But once I settled into it, (and was reminded that they were living in Kyoto, which apparently was not bombed during the war (which was why Mrs Kawashima left her daughters there while she journeyed north to her home town) I just kept being more and more impressed. It took a while, but by the end of the book I just loved it, and like So far from the bamboo grove, I actually think that it ought to be required reading for - well, pretty much everyone. Beyond the issue of post-war Japan, this book brings in homelessness in general. Sure, there's refugee issues, but the life this family went through: the discrimination and the horror of how Yoko was treated at Sagano? I can cope with almost everything else, but the stratification that came with being homeless?

And not just homeless but living in a hospital and living under a bridge homeless. And oddly, the burakamin were still considered more lowly.

Sigh re: the human tendency towards stratification.I kind of wish these two books would be turned into movies. But, you know, good movies.Highly recommended. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it,Oh my goodness!! Such an endearing, emotional, heart-wrenching story. I read So Far From the Bamboo Grove when I was twelve, so I didn't really appreciate it.

Now, two years later, I read the sequel and find it such an inspiring, un-put-downable read. It's about a family who escaped from Korea during WWII when it was taken over by the Communists. There is a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, and another young daughter.

The father is imprisoned by the Communists in Siberia. The brother works Oh my goodness!! Such an endearing, emotional, heart-wrenching story. I read So Far From the Bamboo Grove when I was twelve, so I didn't really appreciate it. Now, two years later, I read the sequel and find it such an inspiring, un-put-downable read. It's about a family who escaped from Korea during WWII when it was taken over by the Communists.

There is a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, and another young daughter. The father is imprisoned by the Communists in Siberia. The brother works in a weapons factory. The mother and two sisters undergo a horrifying trip and escape to Japan, where they live in poverty and the mother dies of sheer exhaustion. Eventually, the two sisters are reunited with their brother and continue scraping a living and working hard to send the youngest daughter, Yoko, to school. Five years after they first escape from Korea, they finally find their father again.

They underwent a hard, cruel stage of life, but through it all they worked hard to uphold their family honor and make an honest living. This was an excellent YA nonfiction book (autobiography) about a 13-year-old living in post-W.W. She was a refugee because she lived in Korea as the conflict broke out there, even though she was a native of Japan. It was heart-wrenching to read about the plight of a young refugee as she was treated so cruelly by others who thought they had a higher status, and yet heart-warming to read of the kindness of others toward her as she worked hard to make her situation better. I was inspired This was an excellent YA nonfiction book (autobiography) about a 13-year-old living in post-W.W. She was a refugee because she lived in Korea as the conflict broke out there, even though she was a native of Japan.

It was heart-wrenching to read about the plight of a young refugee as she was treated so cruelly by others who thought they had a higher status, and yet heart-warming to read of the kindness of others toward her as she worked hard to make her situation better. I was inspired by her willpower to serenely overlook the injustices others dealt to her and yet turn around and exhibit unselfish acts of kindness to others as she remembered the things her father had taught her. It means even more because the author is sharing her own experiences as a young teen in an excellent, well-written book. I will definitely be recommending this to my students! 5 and up?This is a sequel to 'So Far From the Bamboo Grove.' It has been a while since I've read this, but wanted to log the title.

I read it the spring I was recovering from surgery, so somehow the survival theme really connected. I since had a discussion with a Korean-American author who indicated there was a lot of controversy about these books, as they didn't contextualize the story enough.

Probably true. Significant as a survival story, though, and the cost of war on individual lives. 5 and up?This is a sequel to 'So Far From the Bamboo Grove.' It has been a while since I've read this, but wanted to log the title.

I read it the spring I was recovering from surgery, so somehow the survival theme really connected. I since had a discussion with a Korean-American author who indicated there was a lot of controversy about these books, as they didn't contextualize the story enough. Probably true. Significant as a survival story, though, and the cost of war on individual lives.

It reminds me of another story about a Korean girl who makes it to the American Red Cross station at the North/South Korea line at the end of the book. With her mother dead and her father missing, thirteen year old Yoko, older sister Ko, and her older brother Hideyo struggle to survive. When Ko is seriously injured in a fire, Hideyo searches for more work to pay hospital bills and Yoko takes on the responsibility of caring for Ko. When Ko is accused of murdering their landlords, Yoko is determined to prove her sister’s innocence.This is a great story about a Japanese girl in the aftermath of World War II. It is based on a true story.

I With her mother dead and her father missing, thirteen year old Yoko, older sister Ko, and her older brother Hideyo struggle to survive. When Ko is seriously injured in a fire, Hideyo searches for more work to pay hospital bills and Yoko takes on the responsibility of caring for Ko. When Ko is accused of murdering their landlords, Yoko is determined to prove her sister’s innocence.This is a great story about a Japanese girl in the aftermath of World War II. It is based on a true story.

I recommend this book as a gripping and educational read. I loved this book!

I read it 2 times. It was the second book, the one after so far from the bamboo grove, and it told all the things I had been curious about,like what happened to Yoko, her sister Ko, and there brother.

What happened to there father who at the ending of the first book was in prisoned by the Russians. I learned some things about how life was for the Japanese after the war.

It was very good! This series of 2 books, so far from the bamboo grove, and my brother sister and I are 2 of I loved this book! I read it 2 times.

It was the second book, the one after so far from the bamboo grove, and it told all the things I had been curious about,like what happened to Yoko, her sister Ko, and there brother. What happened to there father who at the ending of the first book was in prisoned by the Russians. I learned some things about how life was for the Japanese after the war. It was very good!

This series of 2 books, so far from the bamboo grove, and my brother sister and I are 2 of my favorites of all time! Yoko Kawashima Watkins was born in Japan in 1933. Her family lived in Manchuria, a region in northern china where her father was stationed as a Japanese government official.

This region of China had been under Japanese control since 1931. The family later moved to Nanam in northern Korea, where her father was overseeing Japanese political interests. Japan had taken control of Korea in 1910. Yoko Kawashima Watkins was born in Japan in 1933.

Her family lived in Manchuria, a region in northern china where her father was stationed as a Japanese government official. This region of China had been under Japanese control since 1931.

The family later moved to Nanam in northern Korea, where her father was overseeing Japanese political interests. Japan had taken control of Korea in 1910. Although the family lived in Korea, they followed many Japanese traditions.Yoko, her brother Hideyo, and her sister Ko practiced calligraphy, the art of serving and receiving tea, and classic Japanese dance.

Yoko’s family lived very comfortably in Korea until July of 1945, when it became clear that Japan was losing WW2. Yoko, her sister, and her mother had to flee Korea to ensure their safety. Because Japan's presence in Korea was greatly resented, their comfortable life became a life on the run, as they made their way back to Japan.Yoko survived the journey back to Japan where she finished her secondary schooling. She then attended Kyoto University where she was in an English-language based program. She graduated and worked at the US Air Force Base as a translator, where she met her future husband. She married Donald Watkins, an American pilot, in 1953.

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In 1955 her husband was transferred to the US, where they lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Oregon, and finally settled in Brewster, Massachusetts, where they still live. Together the couple had four children.In 1976 Yoko began writing So Far From the Bamboo Grove. It was published in 1986, and has won many awards.

In 1994 she published a second book, My Brother, My Sister, and I. In addition to writing, Yoko gives lectures, visits schools, answers questions, and gives advice to students.