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Kiku Honda

Age : 23 (as of March 1941)

Birthday : February 11, 1918

Height : 5′5″ (165 cm)

Occupation : High school student/houseboy 

Nationality : Japanese

Kiku Honda is a Japanese immigrant living in Davao City, Philippines. He moved to the Philippines with his father when he was just 9 years old. Growing up to a multi-cultural country, he is fluent in a number of Philippine languages. He is also one of the few Japanese that is fluent in English.

Kiku is a peace loving individual and rarely looses his cool. He is pretty good in resolving conflict. He is dependable and gets along well with people, some even see him as an older brother figure.

A hard working and intelligent young man, he is currently finishing his High school education while working as a houseboy for a wealthy Spanish lady. He also works as a tutor to help him save up for college. One more year to go and he is off to Manila to get college degree.

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Kiku, do you know Bisaya? Kasabot ba ka sa imong mga kauban?

Oh, and of course, I can speak Nihonggo.

Notes:

There are many languages and dialects used in the Philippines. Tagalog, Chavacano and Bisaya are just some of them.

Tagalog, also known as the Filipino language, is the language spoken in the capital city of Manila and surrounding provinces.

Bisaya is the language/s spoken in the Visayas region and some parts of Mindanao. Actually, there are several languages/dialects spoken in the Visayas, but one of the most spoken is Cebuano, the language used in Cebu. (Now correct me if I’m wrong, but often times, when people say Bisaya, they are referring to Cebuano.)

Chavacano is a Spanish based creole language, commonly spoken in some parts of Cavite and several places in Mindanao.

Thanks to @cynicallyinkless for the translation

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[the--undefeated]

In my school, they call it JROTC, but everyone just refers to it as ROTC and lots of kids go straight into the military from it, so I believe it can go either way? I've honestly never heard it called CAT.

//thanks anon. I think CAT is a Philippines thing. When I googled it, all the results was from the Ph. 

If the US version  of CAT is JROTC, it’s probably the same thing that was implemented in the 1940′s since the Ph was still under US rule.

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Are you in hs or college? Bc in college it's rotc and in hs its cat

//Kiku is in high school [x]. And you are right anon, when it comes to high school military training, it’s usually CAT (Citizen Army/Advancement Training).

However, Kiku’s character is based on a real person. He’s a Japanese immigrant and he was in high school in Davao city just before the war broke and he wrote that they had ROTC training. (Sorry, I’m not giving you anymore info about him, coz spoilers.)

I did do a quick research about the history of ROTC, but I could not get a clear answer if high school students also participated in the training. But there is such a thing as Junior ROTC for high school students. I did not see any info if this was implemented in pre-war Philippines, but perhaps this is what the person behind Kiku’s character meant. It wouldn’t be surprising that HS students also had some military training considering the situation at the time.

But if there’s anyone who can clarify the issue, please feel free to enlighten me. Send in a link or perhaps your grandparents have told you something, please tell me.

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I know I’m too old to be in high school, but it was tough when I first moved here. Aside from money matters, I didn’t know the language and culture. I had to take special classes while helping my father earn money.

Maybe I could take up law, or maybe something in the field of medicine…

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Chapter 1: Land of Promise

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Notes:

Isabela Province is located in the northern of the Philippines, in the island of Luzon.

Davao City is located in the southern part of the Philippines, in the island of Mindanao.