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Japan in San Piedro “It is plain that, if the right belongs to any, it belongs to all.” David Guterson, author of “Snow Falling on Cedars”, introduces San Piedro as an isolated place which no one who lives there can afford make enemies. But couple years after WW II, a fisherman found drowned. And a Japans American is charged with his murder. All of the action is happening after the Second World War and most …

…to the authorities. Through out the history, not even Japans but other races were victims of stereotypes and prejudice and because of that they served years in jails and even in most cases they lost their lives over prejudice. And the best and strongest example is Nelsen Mandela the president of South Africa, he serve twenty something years in jail because of his color of his race and because of prejudice society of that time.