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Though he looks cold and some viewers are shocked by his slapping Taeko, he was just a typical Japanese father of the 60s. He isn’t an ideal father, but a realistic one. The manga is semi-autobiographical, and the author seems to have come to terms with what happened. Though she doesn’t totally agree with her parents, she doesn’t think that it was abuse.
