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Keiko Yamasuki is Bill Hines’s wife, and she works alongside him in his research. She is a former Nobel Prize winner, and she won the prize for applying Hines’s neuroscientific research to treatments for amnesia and mental illness. Keiko is also eventually revealed to be Hines’s Wallbreaker, meaning she is a member of the Earth-Trisolaris Organization (ETO), a pro-Trisolaran group of humans, who aims to uncover Hines’s true plan as a Wallfacer and expose it to both the Trisolarans and the rest of the world. She ultimately succeeds in that mission, which causes Hines to be shunned by society.
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Keiko Yamasuki Character Timeline in The Dark Forest
The timeline below shows where the character Keiko Yamasuki appears in The Dark Forest. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Pages 131-150
Another Wallfacer, Bill Hines, talks with his wife Keiko Yamasuki, who is a neuroscientist. Hines tells her that he has no clue what he’s...
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Pages 261-282
...that it only took 12 years. After Hines awakens, he goes to see his wife, Keiko Yamasuki, who has been working on the project to advance humans’ intellectual capacity while Hines...
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Hines and Keiko begin to run tests on the human brain using the computer. One of the first...
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...recent uptick in defeatism is concerning to him. He explains that, by accident, his and Keiko’s research led them to discover a way to produce a judgment in a person’s brain...
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Months later, Hines and Keiko open the facility that will administer mental seals on members of the space force. It’s...
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...the Faith Center. At first, people come alone, but they then begin coming in groups. Keiko and Hines can sense an immediate change in the soldiers’ disposition after they get the...
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Pages 309-328
Just before the Wallfacer Hearing begins, Bill Hines and Keiko Yamasuki appear on a screen. Luo Ji tells Hines that he’s the only Wallfacer who...
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Pages 329-354
After the Wallfacer Hearing ends, Keiko says she has something to say. At first, no one pays attention, but then, on...
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