Analyse af japansk novelle om familie og tradition

The story is narrated by a young Japanese man who returns home after living in California for two years. It is not told why he leaves but the narrator says “My relationship with my parents had become strained around that period”. When the father arrives at the airport to pick up his son, the conversation is very tense, even though the father tells his son, that his firm partner, Watanabe, committed suicide after the firm bankrupted. Kikuko tells her brother afterward that Watanabe took his two daughters and his wife with him in the suicide. The father believes that “It's