The story captures a side of World War II readers may not have seen before.Ī must-read story of a lesser-known World War II event and its aftermathĪnecdotal paintings and reminiscences of two childhood years spent in China, by an artist now in her 90s.įollowing up Once Upon a Full Moon (2007), an account of her family’s journey from Canada to Kwangtung province, Quan recalls 17 experiences or incidents during the stay. Using watercolors and finely inked lines, Iwai illustrates the moving moments and events in Nobuo’s life with grace and humanity.

Nobuo’s story of reconciliation, not only for him, but for Japan and the U.S., is powerful and poignant.

Readers can follow his emotional journey toward forgiveness and peace. Years later the town of Brookings invited the Japanese bomber to their Memorial Day festival. and its allies, Nobuo resumed civilian life with his family but lived with guilt and shame over his wartime actions. Flying over the small town of Brookings, Oregon, Nobuo dropped the bombs into the forest, but the bombs did not create the devastation and panic that Japan had hoped for. could be bombed, Japan sent Nobuo Fujita in a small plane to bomb the woods of Oregon and start a raging fire. Wanting to prove that the continental U.S. In 1941, the United States was drawn into World War II after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. The true story of the Japanese pilot who bombed the continental United States during World War II.

Fairy Spell by Marc Tyler Nobleman