![]() ![]() Kabuo’s trial, and the evidence that leads to his initial arrest, demonstrates the great impact biased “facts” have on the islanders’ notion of larger truths. Especially since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, San Piedro residents have adopted a malicious, skeptical, and racist attitude towards their Japanese neighbors. However, Kabuo’s Japanese ancestry causes much of the courtroom to regard his calm, unreadable demeanor in a more negative light. Like Carl Heine and the rest of San Piedro’s fishermen, Kabuo is reserved and restrained. San Piedro is a small-knit (though judgmental) community of strawberry farmers and fishermen, and Kabuo’s trial brings to light the racist undertones that cut through the islands foggy, cedar-covered landscape. ![]() Carl, a war veteran, is well-liked in the community and embodies the ideal, revered San Piedro fisherman: he is respectable, quiet, and he keeps to himself. Kabuo, a local fisherman of Japanese descent, is accused of murdering Carl Heine, another local fisherman. In the San Piedro courtroom, on December 6, 1954, the trial of Kabuo Miyamoto is underway. ![]()
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