Gary Schmidt, a small-town American boy, meets a Japanese girl in college and follows her to Japan to start a family. Little does he know that her conservative Japanese clan has hidden agendas and secret intentions. Gary eventually realizes that he must escape their clutches – and convince his family to do the same before it’s too late!
IN APPROPRIATE is a book about child abductions in Japan, where after a divorce, a non-Japanese man comes back to Japan to retrieve his children back to America. Although a work of fiction, it is an amalgam of several true stories of divorce and Left-Behind Parents in Japan.
A propos de Arudou Debito
"IN APPROPRIATE: A novel of culture, kidnapping, and revenge in modern Japan" is the first fiction work by author ARUDOU Debito. Arudou is a 23-year resident of Japan, a newspaper columnist at The Japan Times, and a naturalized Japanese citizen. This work exposes a dark side of family ties in Japan, one rarely seen with such insight and depth. His nonfiction books include "Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants" (Akashi Shoten Inc., Tokyo, 2008), and "JAPANESE ONLY: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan" (Akashi Shoten Inc., Tokyo, Japanese 2003, English 2004). He lives in Sapporo.
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