In the first chapter of Kafka on the Shore, the unnamed narrator describes items he takes from his father's study before running away from home. A "boy named Crow," who appears to be the narrator's alter ego, gives him advice and mirrors his own thoughts in words. The narrator boards the night bus for Takamatsu.
This chapter is presented as a declassified document generated by the U.S. Department of Defense. In it, Second Lieutenant Robert O'Connor and Master Sergeant Harold Katayama interrogate Setsuko Okamochi in the town hall of Yamanashi Prefecture. The year is 1946 and the title of their report is "Report on the Rice Bowl Hill Incident, 1944."
Okamochi is asked about her involvement in events that took place two years prior, on November 7, 1944, when she.....
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