![]() ![]() For information about 2017 events, check here and the UN Peace Day Facebook page. The 2017 theme is Together for Peace, Safety, Respect & Dignity For All. International Day of Peace is on September 21. Waiting for the sibling she has always wanted, … ![]() Things heat up even more for Ema when a bully at the neighborhood school that she has to attend in the fall makes her life miserable as well. It is always on her grandfather never misses the news. She finishes the schoolwork for the semester under her grandmother’s nose and in front of the television. Ema is miserable trying to keep peace between her grandmother and mother, to keep cool in the summer heat, and to keep up her studies. Ema’s grandmother takes care of them and makes sure that Ema knows the finer points of Japanese culture. She and her parents go across Tokyo to stay at her grandparents’ house. Ema has lived in Japan all her life, has attended Japanese public school, has done well and has friends that she has to leave for a few months because of her mother’s difficult pregnancy. Ema is an eleven-year-old American-Japanese girl bi-cultural, bilingual and bi-national with an American mother and a Japanese father. ![]()
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