Sakura Blooms at Night

Japan, 1993. That morning in a Kyoto hospital, Yuna did not expect that her first patient would be her sister Ama, whom she had not seen for over thirty years. Ama is terminally ill and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant from a close relative. But as Yuna searches for a suitable donor, a new revelation comes that turns everything upside down: Ama was adopted.
To save her sister, Yuna embarks on a journey tracing her family to northeast China, where the empire of Manchukuo was located fifty years ago. Little does she suspect that she will uncover one of the cruelest and most painful secrets of World War II.

«Sakura Blooms at Night» is an honest, shocking book about the painful relationships between China and Japan, about the amazing intersection of human destinies in the chaos of war, and the desperate struggle for life.