Question

Please answer the following questions from the story “Tokyo.”

How does the war affect Ryo’s relationship with her husband?
What happens to him? How does Ryo survive? Why does Ryo end up in Tokyo, instead of staying in the country?
Does she make the right choice going to Tokyo?
(4 points)

Answer 1

Ryo makes the right choice going to Tokyo as she has to move on with her life and life is filled with constant changes.

Answer 2

Ryo had not seen her husband for 6 years.

He was a prisoner of war in Siberia.

She sold tea to support her family.

She was in Tokyo to be with a man, Tsuruishi but he was killed in an accident.

Ryo felt it was the right choice.