He followed the rules—of his grandparents, his school, and his government. “I was a child then,” he reflected. “I pretty much thought that whatever adults said was correct: that the war was good, that Japan—and only Japan—was good, and that the Koreans, Chinese, and Americans were bad. These weren’t my thoughts,” he clarified. “They’re what the adults taught me. When I grew older, I understood that these were lies.”
