so I thought of this while writing the post, but Maria wouldn't be the type to just offer up solutions like that, lol....

but kaneda could potentially pose as a chinese nationalist-after all, jiang zhongzheng (also known as chiang kai-shek, i believe) and his wife have visited America before-once in 1937, another time in 1943, and I'm sure on some other occasions as well

so ya random thought haha