Why would they attack Pearl Harbor? It's out in the middle of nowhere." His mother looks very worried and, with equal innocence admits she has no clue.
A few panels into the book he turns on the radio and hears that Pearl Harbor has been attacked by Japan. Koji, protagonist of "Gaijin", San Francisco resident and the son of a white mother and Japanese father, doesn't get to enjoy his birthday for long. A chronologically appropriate airplane flies not too far above the bridge, and just above it sits one caption, reading: "Sunday, December 7, 1941. Cars and trucks cross the bridge, smaller than dimes, driving in and out of the fog. Gaijin opens with a gorgeous two-page spread, the Golden Gate bridge bird's eye view, dotted with foggy clouds and soaked in the blues of sky and water. Gaijin brings to life in graphic form, I believe for the first time, a bit of this horrifying American history - the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in internment camps after Pearl Harbor and through the end of the war.
While World War II America is often portrayed in super-heroic terms, there was a lot of shady business going on.
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