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John and Mary Mori arrive and open a flower market in town. But despite John's military service and the couple's good deeds, the face anti-Japanese harassment before a series of events begin to turn the tide. Author Bradford Smith tells the story using fictitious newspaper articles, letters, and personal testimony.\n </p>\n <p>\n  Author Bradford Smith worked for the Office of War Information during the war and wrote a 1948 book about Japanese Americans titled\n  <i>\n   Americans from Japan\n  </i>\n  .\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n  <b>\n   Authored by\n   <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n    Brian Niiya\n   </a>\n   , Densho\n  </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n  Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n  Might also like \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Service Flags (short story)/\" title=\"The Service Flags (short story)\">\n   The Service Flags\n  </a>\n  \" by Bill Hosokawa; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Floating Home (short story)/\" title=\"Floating Home (short story)\">\n   Floating Home\n  </a>\n  \" by Jan Morrill; \"\n  <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/When Your Body Has Been Rolled in Thorns (short story)/\" title=\"When Your Body Has Been Rolled in Thorns (short story)\">\n   When Your Body Has Been Rolled in Thorns\n  </a>\n  \" by Ferris Takahashi\n </p>\n</div>\n","moreinfo":"<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n  <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n   For More Information\n  </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n  <p>\n   Smith, Bradford. \"\n   <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.unz.org/Pub/CommonGround-1946q1-00071\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n    Case History.\n   </a>\n   \"\n   <i>\n    Common Ground\n   </i>\n   6.3 (Spring 1946): 71–76.\n  </p>\n  <p>\n   Smith, Bradford.\n   <i>\n    Americans from Japan\n   </i>\n   . Ed. Louis Adamic.  New York: J.B. 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