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About THE
GOOK LOVER
THE GOOK LOVER is a pro-Japanese, pro-Asian, but anti-Imperial Japan
novel. It is the story of Tomi Tomigawa, a young Japanese officer
disillusioned during the 1937 Rape of Nanking and how his adventures
during six tumultuous decades transformed him. He knows it’s a
hollow victory when the world eventually hails him as the "Henry
Ford of modern Japan.”
Tomi was made a war hero for propaganda purposes. He played a key
role in Japan’s horrific medical experiments on prisoners, spied at
Pearl Harbor and committed war crimes. In his scramble from latrine
orderly for the Yankee occupiers to black market hustler, he lied,
cheated and stole to survive. Worse, he sacrificed his closest
friends and himself to build the world’s largest car company.
He only accomplished the first two thirds of the ancient Chinese
motto: “Think. Organize. Do Good.” As an elderly billionaire without
a family, he knew the dumbest lie of all is that he who dies with
the most toys, wins.
Then a casual glance in a Manhattan book store window changes his
life and possibly, that of Japan's future.
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