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'[T]ells of a young girl, Saya, whose mother was English and father Japanese. Because of her beauty she serves as a model in the Japanese landscape for foreign tourists and painters. A young Australian artist instantly falls for her and they become engaged; however he is to go back to Australia leaving her with a promise to return. In Australia the artist suffers from a disease...An Australian woman saves the artist and takes care of him. However, knowing the promise given to Saya in Japan, she sorrowfully backs out of the triangular relationship...' - Kato, Megumi in Representations of Japan... (2005) (p.60-61)
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'[A]bout a young girl called Mizpah, whose mother is English and father Japanese. She speaks fluent English and falls in love with a young American lieutenant, and eventually helps him by leaking military secrets stolen from her father. However, when she discovers that the lieutenant is betrothed to his English cousin, she regards this bond as more sacred and important than their verbal promise and refuses to go to the United States with him...The story ends with the disclosure of her conspiracy, and she is arrested, poosibly to be executed, as a traitor to her country.' - Kato, Megumi in Representations of Japan... (2005) (p.60)
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cJapan,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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