AFW tells the story of a former artist, Masuji Ono, of Imperial Japan. It is during this new Japan, occupied by America, that he reflects on the years he spent before the war and the Atomic Bombs. He narrates his life to us from the time when he was an artist of the floating world, creating art for art’s sake, to the time when he became a propagandist of Imperial Japan. ROD tells the story of a butler, Stevens, who, while on a tour, in a Ford car, to visit his former colleague, Miss Kenton, recollects his life in and around Darlington Hall serving his master, Lord Darlington. He depicts characters who use “the language of self-deception and self-protection” (Mason, 1986, p. 5).