It is 1959 when Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan. Thirty years later, now Empress herself, she plays a crucial role in persuading another young woman to accept the marriage proposal of her son, with consequences both tragic and dramatic.
Julian and Claire meet briefly in 1985, and during the succeeding years they part, come together, part again, marry other people, and meet for one last brief interlude. Then Claire commits suicide. Shattered, Julian goes to the scene of her death to find out the truth of what happened.
Alec Stern, a newly minted Yate graduate, is on assigment in Tokyo, staying with a Japanese family. Infatuated with Japan since he was small, he desperately wants to make this foreign place his own - and in the process, to distance himself from his ruptured past. In Tokyo he struggles to master Japanese ways in a series of sharp and funny ...
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