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SO FAR FROM THE BAMBOO GROVE


So Far From the Bamboo Grove is a true story about Yoko Kawashima Watkins when she was an eleven-year-old girl, who had to flee Korea with her mother and older sister because the Koreans resented the Japanese. Yoko and her family were Japanese living in northern Korea. Yoko's father was a Japanese government official working in Manchuria, near the border of northern Korean. Japan had taken over Korea and ruled it as their own. The Korean people wanted their country back and hated the Japanese for occupying their country for many years. So the Japanese in Korea were in terrible danger.
Now Japanese-occupied Korea was threatened by World Was II. The Russians, who had outposts close to the Korean border, might at any time join their allies, the United States and England, in the war against Japan. Yoko and her family's journey was very hard and life threatening.
This all happened midnight on July 29, 1945. A fam...