One evening in class, he approached a classmate, whom he viewed as a fellow Asian American. “I thought she would have some empathy.” But when Harry tried to engage the young woman in conversation, her eyes narrowed. The Japanese were terrible to have attacked Pearl Harbor, she said. She was Korean, and her father and brothers did not want her talking to a Japanese. It was true that Japan had annexed Korea in 1910 and was treating it harshly. Koreans had been assigned to forced labor in abysmal conditions in Japan and other areas. But this encounter was personal, between two Americans. Harry
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