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Miki
Kasumi
& her Kaibo Gikai
KB
flying boat
Character information from Pelzig--1999
| Name: Miki Kasumi Birth Home: Fukui, Japan Birthdate: 6 July, 1915 Miki Kasumi is not what you would call a typical Japanese girl. Far from it. Born to Kaneda Kasumi and Akiko Kurasawa, Miki grew up in wealth and also grew up in a household whose master was fascinated by aviation. Kaneda is a major contributor to the PMBRA (Provisional Military Balloon Research Association) and as such, he was often surrounded by books and the like on aircraft, as well as being asked to donate to some intrepid inventor who had a new idea for a plane. It was these inventors whom Miki has the most contact with, hearing of their schemes and dreams of soaring in the air like a bird. As she grew up, she would often steal peeks in the books in her father’s library or put her ear to the door to eavesdrop on a chat between her father and a potential investment. She was in heaven when her father took her to the workshops or Ueno Park in Tokyo where young aviators would try to take to the air. When she was 10, she visited a French delegation of pilots whom had come to Japan, with the best of the French air force planes, to train the fledgling Japanese air force. She was forever changed by the exposure to the culture outside Japan’s shores and as she grew up, the lure of the air and the “West” was too much for her to resist. She became ever more rebellious, and using her position as daughter to a wealthy and well-known patron to the aviation industry, was able to glean trips into the air (usually by the French pilots), learn aspects of flying, and navigation. While she did come close to getting punished for this, she managed to dodge the bullet until her recent move has now put her on the firing line. In October of 1929, at the age of only 14, the stole the Kaibo Gikai KB flying boat from a Navy yard with the aid of a sympathetic “co-conspirator”. Even though work on the flying boat had ceased, it is still Imperial Navy property, and should Miki and her supporter get caught and taken from their new-found freedom on Spontoon Island, father will be hard pressed to bail her out. Pelzig--1999
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