The Japanese Boy
A 12-year-old Japanese orphan boy found on the base after the war whose parents had been killed; Wayne's unit secretly sheltered him, gave him a candy bar and a bed, and assigned him to listen for the telephone, which he announced by running outside shouting 'telle, telle, telle.' He stood on the docks waving goodbye the day Wayne's unit shipped home.
Life map
Every story in this collection, plotted at the age it finds The Japanese Boy — and whether that life stage is ready to draw. ● made books · ○ planned stories.
How we know
Every fact about The Japanese Boy, with where it came from. Your word always outranks a re-scan.
Real photo
Have an actual photo of The Japanese Boy? Add it and we'll build their illustrated likeness from it — locked across every book in the collection. Optional.
Family
Set parents and we'll draw this person with a real family resemblance — children visibly belong to their parents.
FamilySearch
FS_CLIENT_ID and FS_REDIRECT_URI in the server environment. Imported records fill in birth/death years and portraits — without ever overriding the journal or your own edits.
What makes The Japanese Boy
The locked visual details the illustrator matches on every page. Edits save here (the source of truth) and flow to every book The Japanese Boy appears in.
The canonical likeness
The locked turnaround + reference the AI illustrator draws from on every page, in every book. Built from the traits — add a real photo above to anchor it to the actual person.
A 12-year-old Japanese orphan boy found on the base after the war whose parents had been killed; Wayne's unit secretly sheltered him, gave him a candy bar and a bed, and assigned him to listen for the telephone, which he announced by running outside shouting 'telle, telle, telle.' He stood on the docks waving goodbye the day Wayne's unit shipped home.
Life stages
The same The Japanese Boy at every age they appear in the series. Draw a stage to age it from the canonical likeness, or pin a real photo to the stage it actually shows — even an old one — and the younger stages age down from it. Give each stage an outfit (clothes are era and station — a boy in England dresses nothing like a father in Utah) and every page at that age keeps it. Lock a stage once it's right so it's never redrawn. Each is generated once and reused across every book.
Books featuring The Japanese Boy
Changed this person’s look above? Pages already drawn keep their old image until you redraw them — use the button on a book to refresh every page they appear in, in one go.