Title: Chunī to iu namae no akachan
Description: Yumi moves from Tokyo to Okayama Prefecture and passes by a dilapidated house on her way to school. Every day she listens to the old lady singing a song in Korean. They slowly become friends and Yumi learns about the old lady's experiences during the war when she was forcibly taken to Japan and then gave birth to a baby after the Hiroshima bomb. Yumi and her friends learn the song so that they can support and console the old lady.

Yumi moves from Tokyo to Okayama Prefecture and passes by a dilapidated house on her way to school. Every day she listens to the old lady singing a song in Korean. They slowly become friends and Yumi learns about the old lady's experiences during the war when she was forcibly taken to Japan and then gave birth to a baby after the Hiroshima bomb. Yumi and her friends learn the song so that they can support and console the old lady
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945, Juvenile fiction, Children, Koreans, History, Atomic bomb victims, Children and peace
Places: Japan
Time periods: 20th century