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Daisuke Totoyama
Hana is Etsuko’s teenage daughter. She and her mother have a troubled relationship. At 15, Hana gets pregnant and has an abortion, then lives with Etsuko and befriends Solomon. Hana uses alcohol and sex to stifle her sadness and low self-esteem. She and Solomon sleep together until she runs away to Tokyo, where she takes various jobs engaging in degrading sex work until she contracts AIDS. She and Etsuko reconcile, and Mozasu, Sunja, and Kyunghee visit and pray for her while she’s dying in the hospital. Solomon, whom she’s always loved, also visits her, and she encourages Solomon to work for Mozasu after he gets fired, telling him that people like the two of them will never be accepted by mainstream Japanese society.
Hana Quotes in Pachinko
The Pachinko quotes below are all either spoken by Hana or refer to Hana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 3, Chapter 20
Quotes
“Japan will never change. […] The zainichi can’t leave, nee? But it’s not just you. Japan will never take people like my mother back into society again; it will never take back people like me. And we’re Japanese! I’m diseased. I got this from some Japanese guy who owned an old trading company. He’s dead now. But nobody cares. The doctors here, even, they just want me to go away. So listen, Solomon, you should stay here and not go back to the States, and you should take over your papa’s business. Become so rich that you can do whatever you want. But, my beautiful Solomon, they’re never going to think we’re okay. Do you know what I mean?” Hana stared at him. “Do what I tell you to do.”
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Hana Quotes in Pachinko
The Pachinko quotes below are all either spoken by Hana or refer to Hana. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Book 3, Chapter 20
Quotes
“Japan will never change. […] The zainichi can’t leave, nee? But it’s not just you. Japan will never take people like my mother back into society again; it will never take back people like me. And we’re Japanese! I’m diseased. I got this from some Japanese guy who owned an old trading company. He’s dead now. But nobody cares. The doctors here, even, they just want me to go away. So listen, Solomon, you should stay here and not go back to the States, and you should take over your papa’s business. Become so rich that you can do whatever you want. But, my beautiful Solomon, they’re never going to think we’re okay. Do you know what I mean?” Hana stared at him. “Do what I tell you to do.”
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