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Takashi
Takashi Takashi written as 孝史 (filial piety history) belongs to a generation of Japanese men who were named in the belief that devotion to family and duty to ancestors was the highest virtue. In contemporary Japanese fiction, a character named Takashi often represents the older generation: formal, reserved, perhaps emotionally constricted by the demands of propriety, but capable of profound loyalty. The tension between filial obligation and personal desire is a central engine of Japanese literary fiction, and Takashi is its natural protagonist.
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