The New Spring

The New Spring is the story of a Japanese soldier and the devastation --as well as the social and moral upheaval -- he finds when he is repatriated from the Pacific after World War II. After a five-year absence he is almost a stranger to his shy wife and he is soon at odds with his oldest brother who flaunts his nisei sergeant friend and black-market cigarettes. He is outraged to find his brother's widow shacked up with an American. Practically everything to which he has come home is alien to his values as he struggles to realign his life with postwar realities.