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The Man in the High Castle | Characters

Ursula K. Le Guin has said that the character Mr. Tagomi, head of the Japanese Trade Commission in San Francisco, is one of the most fully realized human beings in science fiction (a branch of literature in which ideas are usually more important). Certainly he commands the most attention, sympathy, and even empathy of all the characters. At first Tagomi threatens to be only a stock character, the tradition-bound Oriental, following custom-hallowed rituals and manners of status and place in political and personal life. But it is he who has to contemplate the possibilities of changing...

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