Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Forthieth Anniversary) by Richard E. Kim Children's Book Paul with his wife

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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood (Forthieth Anniversary) by Richard E. Kim Children's Book Paul with his wifeIn this autobiography, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation during WWII, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of Japan and dissolution of the Japanese empire.