Fusako - mother of Noboru and lover of Ryuji Tsukazaki FORMAT: Instructor does not want a repetitive essay of the story but to give an essay of what we thought of the story and its main characters. INTRODUCTION The story has three main characters and they are Japanese. The young boy and his mother lived in Japan after the post war, so the era would have been 1950's. I sense that the young boy has become a juvenile delinquent from the way the mother punishes him. He seems to get into trouble with his three friends. In fact, they per ....