Status Updates From Crown City (Japantown Myste...

“ The whole notion of Japan, being a temporary passion and interest was fascinating to me. I, for instance, could not abandon my Japanese essence, even if I wanted to.”

“Perhaps that was the practice of American journalism: non-whites didn’t deserve anything more.”

“Had this immigrant artist become so western that he had forgotten the source of our being?”

This book is so weird. The main perspective is someone who is merely observing life around him

Not gonna lie, though, can racists tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese people?

“This concept of racial violence was new to me. After all, the Japanese were the majority in my home country. I wasn’t raised to think about what it was like to be a minority group.”

It’s kind of idealistic of him to think that a slur and a shove was a personal attack rather than a hate crime

Of course it’s the other person of color who tried to say Ryunosuke’s full name