My father sick, suffering, dying; how could I bear it?

He wants to accomplish what our father could not, to become a true member of Japanese society.

"Then, thank you," he said quietly, "for realizing what her father couldn't and acting on it."

As could his father, if he objected in any way.

Richard had accomplished what his father could not, but did so for entirely different reasons.

The young struggle to believe that their mother or father could ever once have been young themselves.

No one could, really, and sometimes his father could not either.

Silk and his father could; neither of them ever mentioned it to her, though.

The father taught the son everything he knew, and the son eventually did things that his father never could.

Crane watched his son, doting only the way an older father could.