Many songs influenced the writing of Somewhere Among. JHawaii raising Ehime Maru, Star Bulletin Thurs. Space/moon data and weather charts for west Tokyo were used as reference for the scenes. Also note that moon-viewing is traditionally mid-September but it depends on the year Check here for the holiday calendar for 2001. It is important to note that Sea Day and Respect for the Aged Day now fall on the third Monday of July and September respectively. Links to other sources are included in each post on this website. For verification and further study, I have included links to English sources.
Anniversaries, holidays, solstices, and historical events that Japan and the United States share were woven throughout the story. Somewhere Among takes place in Japan 2001. Waiting for the sibling she has always wanted, …
Things heat up even more for Ema when a bully at the neighborhood school that she has to attend in the fall makes her life miserable as well.
It is always on her grandfather never misses the news. She finishes the schoolwork for the semester under her grandmother’s nose and in front of the television. Ema is miserable trying to keep peace between her grandmother and mother, to keep cool in the summer heat, and to keep up her studies. Ema’s grandmother takes care of them and makes sure that Ema knows the finer points of Japanese culture. She and her parents go across Tokyo to stay at her grandparents’ house. Ema has lived in Japan all her life, has attended Japanese public school, has done well and has friends that she has to leave for a few months because of her mother’s difficult pregnancy. Ema is an eleven-year-old American-Japanese girl bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national with an American mother and a Japanese father.
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