Chikara Author:Robert Skimin A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America from 1907 to 1983 — The House of Hoshi — As the gods decree, so shall they live-with honor, with vision, with the power...Chikara — Sataro: At the turn of the century he left his beloved Japan to wrest a golden dream from the raw promise of distant California... — Hiroshi: They younger son, left behind to fulfil... more »l a father's pledge. He learned well to honor Emperor and army. Too well...
Billy: The bitter descendant of Sataro's dream. His family's scarred homeland offered a cast promise to his desperate and deadly ambition...
Sachi: The sensual, beautiful, steel-willed survivor who became the head of the House of Hoshi, driven by her ancient samurai blood to achieve a newer, bolder dream than her grandfather's.
From 1905, through the roaring twenties, Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, to the high-tech boardroom battlegrounds of the eighties, this is the mighty epic of two great cultures-and the family that brought them both to glory.« less