english: Born Akiko Kato in Seattle, Aki grew up in a diverse neighborhood where she never thought of herself as anything but American– until the day after the attack, when a  teacher told her: “You people bombed Pearl Harbor."
non_english: Rođena kao Akiko Kato u Sijetlu, Aki je odrasla u mestu punom različitosti gde je sebe uvek gledala isključivo kao Amerikanku - do dana nakon napada, kada joj je nastavnik rekao: „Tvoj narod je bombardovao Perl Harbor."