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FORT LAUDERDALE, 2005:  Japan, the 1930s. Women's rights simply didn't exist. Daughters of the lowliest peasant to the highest noble found themselves as mere chattel for men's pleasure or power play. That such a fate should befall Hiro Saga, an enlightened and privileged Japanese noblewoman, was beyond her imagination. Forced marriages have been prevalent in Asia and Africa throughout history and in many places still are. Few have been as artfully contrived as that of Hiro Saga to the Chinese emperor's brother - a marriage designed by the Japanese miltary to change the face of Asia's greatest imperial system. Although the subject of literature and film in the Far East for several decades the incredible story of Hiro Saga is unpublished and unknown in the western world.

This semi-fictional novel also reveals recent Asian history from a new perspective - the status of the female; the often comical manipulations of the Japanese military in their attempts to establish their own imperial system in China, and a vivid account of their downfall and retreat from the puppet state of Manchukuo. Hiro is an unwitting participant in all these events.The book also opens up questions on how deeply the Japanese imperial family itself was involved in these military intrigues on the Chinese mainland.

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