Ichiro Yamada, the twenty-five-year-old Japanese American “no-no” boy, is the central figure of the story. Born in the United States to first-generation Japanese immigrants, he had started ...

Ichiro Yamada, a twenty-five-year-old Japanese American, is a “no-no boy” during World War II: That is, he refuses to serve in the U.S. armed forces if drafted and to swear unqualified ...

At the beginning of No-No Boy, Ichiro Yamada is in the midst of an identity crisis as he tries to put his life back together following his release from two years in prison.The unity of his family ...

*Seattle *Seattle. Pacific Northwest city in Washington State that is hometown to Ichiro Yamada. Described realistically and with a keen eye for detail, Seattle’s Japan town struggles to come ...

This dynamic is particularly evident for Ichiro Yamada, whose struggles are further exacerbated by the backdrop of war. In the internment camp, Ichiro faces two critical questions but lacks the ...

Mrs. Yamada, Ichiro's mother, is a staunch Japanese loyalist, to the point of creating her own internal fantasy and refusing to accept the reality of World War II. Her view is that Japan won the ...

Addressing the reader like an old friend in what reads like portions of a diary, the old Japanese painter Masuji Ono, the narrator of Ishiguro’s second novel, An Artist of the Floating World ...

The shift in Japanese culture during the American occupation, a theme also examined in A Pale View of Hills (1982), impacts this novel. Ono feels uncomfortable with his grandson Ichiro's interest ...

The author of The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, was born in Japan and moved to England with his family when he was six years old.He has lived in England ever since, although he was reared ...