Hideki
What island is Hideki from?
Okinawa (Gratz 3)
What state is Ray from?
Nebraska (Gratz 15)
What does Kamikaze mean in Japanese?
Divine Wind (Gratz 20)
Did Hideki find his sister?
Yes (Gratz 201)
Which ancestor was Hideki cursed by?
Shigetomo (Gratz 33)
Hideki's father died after being hit with shrapnel by a grenade (Gratz 94).
What company was Ray in?
1st Marines (Gratz 14)
Who was the American soldier that Hideki hid from in the school?
Ray (Gratz 107)
What was the name of the nurse Hideki saved.
Masako (Gratz 197)
Whats a yuta?
Yuta is a person who had special connection to the dead (Gratz 205)
How did Hideki's parents and younger brother die?
Their transport ship was sunk by an American submarine (Gratz 81)
What was Ray's nickname?
Barbecue (Gratz 53)
What happened to Sergent Meredith?
One his grenades exploded, causing him to be hospitalized (Gratz 89)
Who put bandages on Hideki's head after they found him under a burned tank?
An American doctor (Gratz 170-171)
According to Kimiko what happened to Hideki's Mabui.
He lost his Mabui in the Battle (Gratz 252)
What was the name of the Japanese private that kicked Hideki and Oto out of their family tomb?
Private Shinohara (Gratz 95)
What ridge did Ray and his unit have to capture?
Kakazu Ridge (Gratz 122)
What was the nickname for the Battle of Okinawa?
Love Day (Gratz 11)
What was the name of the little boy who Hideki encouraged through the small cave?
Kazuo (Gratz 213)
At the end of the book why did Kimiko say that Hideki was lucky?
Hideki only see one ghost, while Kimiko sees all the ghost on Okinawa (Gratz 254)
What did Hideki do with the his last grenade at the end of the book?
He discarded it with his Japanese soldier uniform next to a tree (Gratz 233)
What happens to Ray at the end of part one?
He got killed by Hideki using a grenade.(Gratz 142)
What was Hideki supposed to do with each of his grenades?
He was supposed to use one to kill as many American soldiers as possible, and the other to kill himself (Gratz 9)
What was the code that Hideki told to the Japanese soldiers in their bunker?
Yokai (Gratz 220)
What is a Mabui?
Soul (Gratz 46)