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You are correct. Nora in Japanese means ‘stray, wandering’ while kuro ‘black’. His real name is, however, Norayama Kurokichi, yama being a familiar element in Japanese family names and kichi signifying that the person is male. As mentioned in the article, he represents the socially marginal under the pressure of the war.

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