How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Mr. Tanimoto cooked his own breakfast. He felt awfully tired. The effort of moving the piano the day before, a sleepless night, weeks of worry and unbalanced diet, the cares of his parish—all combined to make him feel hardly adequate to the new day's work. There was another thing, too: Mr. Tanimoto had studied theology at Emory College, in Atlanta, Georgia; he had graduated in 1940; he spoke excellent English; he dressed in American clothes; he had corresponded with many American friends right up to the time the war began; and among a people obsessed with a fear of being spied upon—perhaps almost obsessed himself—he found himself growing increasingly uneasy. (1.4)
There was apparently a whole bunch of paranoia regarding foreigners leading up to (and following) the dropping of the bomb. Unsurprisingly, people like Mr. Tanimoto, who had an affinity for America and had traveled there, seemed to attract that kind of sentiment.
Quote #2
To Father Kleinsorge, an Occidental, the silence in the grove by the river, where hundreds of gruesomely wounded suffered together, was one of the most dreadful and awesome phenomena of his whole experience. (2.47)
In addition to reflecting on the suffering of the people around him, Father Kleinsorge seems to have noticed a cultural difference in how the "non-Occidentals" (i.e., non-Westerners) suffered in silence.
Quote #3
A few minutes later, a band of soldiers came up, and an officer, hearing the priests speaking a foreign language, drew his sword and hysterically asked who they were. One of the priests calmed him down and explained that they were Germans—allies. The officer apologized and said that there were reports going around that American parachutists had landed. (3.11)
It seems the paranoia about foreigners persisted after the worst had happened, as rumors swirled around. Even Germans, who had fought on Japan's side in the war, were subject to it if they were perceived as looking like Americans…