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Hakone

Huh?

The Fuji cherries are already in bloom?

That's weird...

Okay, there's the owl's nest.

I wonder if it's asleep.

What's happening?!

August 10th, 10:20 AM

August 10th, 10:20 AM A magnitude 8.8 earthquake strikes Tokyo Bay

August 10th, 11:00 AM

And aftershocks are still occurring even now, an hour since the quake.

Fires have broken out all over Tokyo, engulfing the nation's capital in flames!

The Shuto Expressway and all other highways are severed in multiple places,

and I can't count the number of collapsed buildings.

And according to this report just in,

the government has just declared a historic state of emergency!

With all transportation and communications networks paralyzed throughout the metropolitan area,

secondary and tertiary disasters are growing, with no chance of relief efforts.

This is an emergency!

Tsunami alarms are sounding for the Tokai, Tokyo, and Chiba coastal areas,

and an evacuation order has been issued!

Part 1 THE CHANNEL

The Ryu family manor, a constant mainstay of the Japanese political world since the Meiji era...

reduced to this.

But, while the manor may crumble, so long as people continue to live, we'll make do.

Yes, sir.

Sir, phone call for you.

I thought I told you to handle all my calls.

But sir, it's Secretary Natsuki at the prime minister's residence.

Natsuki, huh?

Ryu here.

Oh, Foreign Affairs and Disaster Management are fighting over accepting foreign relief?

Are you people trying to destroy Japan?

We're also facing accidents at our nuclear power plants!

If anyone is offering us anything, take it!

Do you idiots think Japan is going to recover from this on its own?!

The postwar generation is useless.

Jimichi, get out to my cabin in Hakone at once

and make sure that my son, his wife, and my grandson are safe.

Yes, sir!

He may be a third-rate politician, but he's still my son.

I don't want the Ryu bloodline to die out.

Protect the lives of those three, no matter what!

Is that clear?

Leave it to me.

Fortunately, a friend of mine works for the JNS TV network.

He told me they're flying a helicopter out to Hakone, so I arranged to ride along.

What? The TV network's going out to Hakone?

Yes, there'll be word from the news department at 2:30.

It's Mt. Fuji, isn't it?

Yes, sir. There are signs of an eruption.

There have been precursors for an eruption at Fuji for the last five years.

They've been monitoring constant low-frequency earthquakes there.

They've held off going public with it at the request of the regional government,

which was worried about it affecting the tourism industry.

After a quake like this, it's only a matter of time before it blows.

What happens if it does, Takanashi?

Adding onto the major damage already done by the quake,

the eruption's effects will destroy the Kanto-Hirano region.

The predicted volcanic ash fallout zone could reach up to hundreds of kilometers.

The sky will be covered with ash; an endless night would fall over Tokyo.

And besides that, Jimichi, can you imagine a Japan after losing Mt. Fuji?

HAKONE YUMOTO STATION

HAKONE YUMOTO STATION August 10th, 1 PM

I can't get through to Tokyo! Did you reach Genichiro at the cabin?

It's no good! The call won't go through.

Let's go, Natsue!

Go where?

We're going back!

Dear, what are you saying?

You mean leave Genichiro here and go back to Tokyo?

I mean drive up the mountain and back to Genichiro!

But they say there are landslides everywhere, even out to Sengokubara.

We'll go as far as we can!

And if the car can't get through, then we'll walk there!

Do you think Tami is looking after Genichiro?

She's looked after the place since my father's time, and knows everything about that mountain.

Why'd I leave him behind?

Why did I leave Genichiro at the cabin?

Going out for summer camping supplies is not an official duty of a politician at all!

It'll be all right. You know how bright that boy is.

And people will understand your position.

In the ovens of this hell, politicians are just people.

They say, "Politicians have no families."

I've used those words as a cover-up in order to cast aside the emotions of the ones most precious to me.

He must feel so alone, out there by himself in this chaos.

He must be so worried about us.

The road ahead has been closed to regular traffic!

It is impassable due to the danger of large-scale landslides!

All roads to Lake Ashino are now closed to regular traffic!

The Self Defense Forces will direct you to the base of the mountain!

No cars past here. Please turn around.

Ryu, DLP. I'd like to go get my son at a cabin up the mountain.

Sir!

August 10th, 2 PM

We are currently in a declared state of emergency.

All Self Defense Force units have been mobilized and are engaged in relief efforts.

I'm Shuichiro Morimura of the Morimura Research Institute.

Forgive the delay.

Please have a look at this.

This morning's quake in Tokyo Bay has triggered activity in all of the Tokai region volcanoes.

It's not surprising that the Tokai region is now facing a massive quake.

When's the soonest it'll happen?

It's a miracle it hasn't happened already.

Natsuki, issue an alert for the Tokai region at once.

I'm on it.

Jimichi, take care!

Thanks! I owe you one!

Sir! Ma'am! Genichiro!

Tami, where are the others?!

Sir and Ma'am went down the mountain to shop in Odabara this morning.

I haven't heard from them since.

And Genichiro?

He went out into the forest around 9:00 this morning.

He hasn't gotten back yet!

He hasn't gotten back? It's nearly 3 o'clock!

August 10th, 3 PM

Careful, Dear.

We'll be fine.

We just need to follow the path of the jeep leading us.

Okay!

Ow...!

That was a big one just now.

I better get back.

Dad and Mom and Mrs. Tami will be worried.

His leg's caught under the rock.

Hang on.

I did it! You're safe!

August 10th, 3:10 PM The Great Tokai Earthquake Occurs

We've gotta run!

It's gotta be up ahead!

There it is!

We'll just hunker down here for a while.

A dog shouldn't be so cowardly, you know!

Yumoto, Hakone Disaster Shelter

of the massive magnitude 7.8 earthquake at 3:10 PM August 10th,

dubbed the Great Tokai Earthquake, with its epicenter in Tokai-oki,

has precipitated a large-scale eruption of Mt. Fuji.

Lava flows and smoke are pouring from it.

Because of this, Emergency Countermeasures Headquarters has recommended that all local citizens evacuate.

Currently, on the coast of Suruga Bay-

Hey, what happened?! The TV stopped working!

I can't hear anything on the radio, either!

Look outside! Volcanic ash!

Mt. Fuji's spitting out volcanic ash now?

That's what's causing the radio interference.

Are we really safe here?

Without radio, we're cut off!

Please keep calm!

There is volcanic ash falling, but there's no danger here of lava flow or pyroclastic flow.

Don't give me that!

Don't you know how dangerous volcanic ash is?!

It'll short out the power lines!

Once that happens, our water pumps shut down and we lose all our utility lines!

And not just that!

If it rains, it'll cause avalanches and landslides!

Please, keep calm!

The danger of aftershocks and secondary disasters is the greater concern at the moment.

Everyone, please don't move from here until we receive instructions!

As I thought, neither the Ryus nor Genichiro are here.

The boy so loves birds and insects...

He was so excited to go off onto the mountain.

Mrs. Tami, please stay here.

What? Y-you can't possibly be thinking of...!

I can't help but think that Genichiro is headed back to the cabin.

I'll go look there again.

But they say there are brush fires all over the Sengokubara area!

Either way, I have to go see!

We don't know if the Ryus will show up here.

If they do, let them know where I am.

I beg your pardon, are these rescue trucks from the Sengokubara area?

Yeah, the one to the west came through Nagaotouge.

Have you seen a young boy? He'd be in the fifth grade.

There are no kids on this truck.

The truck behind us came from Tounousawa. Ask them.

An elementary school student?

Yes, wearing shorts.

Would the boy have been named Ryu?

His name is Genichiro Ryu!

He was with us, but...

What?!

About two hours ago, we were headed from Tounousawa to Upper Goura.

There's someone there.

It's a kid!

Get on, quick!

Are you hurt?

Don't cry.

Shut that dog up.

Get rid of it!

All of us here had to abandon our homes, our farms, our cars, and anything precious!

Now, get rid of that dog!

It'll never survive, hurt that bad!

Stop!

Please, stop the truck!

You idiot! We're full of injured people who need immediate treatment!

Nobody cares about a damn dog!

Don't be so hard on the kid.

My name is Genichiro Ryu.

I think my dad and mom are looking for me.

If you run into them, please give them this.

I think they'll know what it means.

Please!

You fool! Get back here!

Come back!

I was busy with the wounded, so we sped on for a while till I heard what happened.

By then, there was no going back for him.

This is his pouch.

Here you go.

Yes.

He was alive.

Where in Goura did he jump out of the truck?

South of Miyagino, I think.

H-hey, you're not thinking of...!

Goura's surrounded by fires now! You won't make it!

Mr. Jimichi! Mr. Jimichi!

What's wrong?

A man from the Self Defense Forces just now...! Come!

They were found in Sawa, Hayakawa.

The car apparently plunged off of a 30-meter-tall cliff.

The doctor's assessment was that they probably died instantly.

If you could please confirm their identities...

ls there no mistake?

Fuji Resort Hotel

You awake, kid?

Here, have a drink.

You're lucky, kid.

If you'd taken a different road, you'd have died in the Fuji eruption!

This road's sheltered from the wind.

I take it all the time when I go bug collecting.

Oh?

Thanks, Mister.

You live around here, kid? Where are your parents?

Dad and Mom are in Sengokubara.

Sengokubara? That place is already burned to the ground.

But, my dad and mom might be waiting for me at our cabin!

But...

I'm sure they're fine.

No telling where is really safe anyway.

Let's go check it out.

Get in!

Mister, can the dog ride, too?

Of course! I like dogs!

I actually survived the Great Kobe Earthquake.

Fact is, I was saved because a dog found me.

That dog's leg is broken, huh?

Yeah. It got it caught under a rock.

Apply this stuff, then wrap it up.

What's your name, kid?

Genichiro Ryu, sir.

Genichiro, huh? Good name.

I'm Goro Sakamaki. Not nearly as cool a name, huh?

What's the dog's name?

I don't know.

He's probably from one of the cabins and got left behind.

Oh, he's abandoned? Well, a dog's a dog.

Mister, you're just carrying food and water in back, huh?

Yeah. When disaster strikes, you'll need water.

That saved a lot of people back in Kobe.

I was thinking of repaying the favor by heading to Tokyo, but...

I never expected Fuji to blow.

Thanks to that, there's no way of getting to Tokyo now.

Still, you've got guts holding it together while grownups are panicking.

Kid, aren't you scared, seeing it this dark in the middle of the day?

Well, it's not like the sun's disappeared.

There's got to be blue skies and sun above this volcanic ash.

You're right. Mr. Sun will always be doing just fine.

Exactly...

Doesn't look like anyone's around.

Ready to go?

Y-yeah.

You'll get through this, kid.

Above this ash are blue skies and the sun, right?

What?! Abandon Tokyo?!

Utility lines in the capital are already destroyed!

Volcanic ash will soon immobilize vehicles as well!

Once that happens, we'll have to see hundreds of thousands of sick, elderly, and wounded

being treated in hospitals left to die!

We first need to transport them out using the SDF, firefighters, and police,

while having anyone who can still walk escape on foot.

Prime Minister, Natsuki is right. We've no choice.

Contact all related ministries!

Issue an emergency order to evacuate Tokyo within 24 hours!

The Japanese government has issued an emergency evacuation order to all civilians within the Tokyo disaster zone.

All survivors are directed to please take only the bare necessities in a small bag,

follow the instructions of Self Defense Forces, firefighter, and police personnel, and evacuate at once!

The Japanese government has issued an emergency evacuation order to all civilians within the Tokyo disaster zone.

All survivors...

It's water!

And there's food, too!

We hit it big! Help me with this!

Mister!

You lousy thief! You wanna go, you little shit?!

I haven't eaten anything since yesterday!

Oh, so that makes it all right to steal from others?!

Mister, please! Don't!

The quake's wrecked Nagoya as bad as it did Tokyo.

Give them some.

Please!

Please, Mister.

Thank you very much!

I apologize for calling you at this hour.

I just got the results of the latest simulations.

The plate distortion caused by the Tokyo and Tokai coastal quakes is building.

We're showing increased activity along all active faults.

Additionally, distortion of the Philippine Sea and Eurasian plates

caused by the two great quakes is growing larger.

What will happen?

I'm afraid I can only conclude that there is the possibility

of another quake as strong as the two great quakes yesterday occurring within the next few days.

Where?!

A major earthquake in the Nankai-Tounankai area.

If this great quake occurs, there is the possibility of a worst case scenario

in which the great fault line that runs through the Japanese archipelago including Toyama Bay in the north

and Kyoto and Osaka to the south, will split apart.

The quake will be of such a magnitude

there is the possibility that the fissure could be several kilometers wide.

If this should occur...

then the Japanese archipelago will be split in two.

You mean the total destruction of Kyoto and Osaka?

The ancient capital... that's stood a thousand years...

Prime Minister lshikura! Issue an evacuation order for the Kyoto-Osaka region!

Prime Minister, the President of the United States is on the line.

Hello, lshikura speaking.

Yes...

Right. Talk to you later.

What's wrong?

They're dispatching cultural preservation teams to Kyoto and Nara.

How did they get this information?!

The calculations our nation's computer simulations made are all likely the same in America.

It's possible the Americans completed the calculations first.

Shit!

Take any assistance we can!

Evacuation of our citizens has top priority!

August 15th, 8:00 AM Simultaneous Major Earthquakes in Nankai and Tounankai Occur

Magnitude 8.9

What the hell is this?!

Earthquake! Epicenter: unknown!

This is Osaka Radio Network emergency news!

Shit!

Prime Minister, mobilize the Seibu area Self Defense Forces.

Right...

In accordance to the situation, our government will secure the safety

of the 50,000 US soldiers stationed in Japan, their families, as well as the citizens of Japan, our greatest allies,

by deploying the US Navy 7th Fleet to the Nansei-shoto coast.

We offer an early commitment of our forces to the Japanese government in accordance with the United Nations.

Aren't we there yet?

About 10 more minutes, sir.

What's up? Dead end?

Maybe another landslide.

That's probably it.

This is one hell of a mess.

Is this...

No way...

This is... impossible!

Mister, is this Lake Biwa?

No, kid.

It's not Lake Biwa anymore.

Japan... has been broken.

Osaka being a semi-closed water area makes it vulnerable to tsunamis.

The tsunami that hit the coastal area caused a counter-current in the river

that's left 98% of the city flooded.

It's become a sea.

Osaka has become a sea?!

Lake Biwa has been broken.

No, not just Lake Biwa. This was our worst case outcome.

This nation, which runs along a great archipelago fault line...

This island chain...

This island chain has been split apart.

Split apart...

A cataclysm such as this nation has never experienced before in its history.

We have become the first Japanese to ever confront this unprecedented situation.

Japan...

Broken...

Natsuki, how ready are the SDF to mount relief efforts in the Kyoto-Osaka area?

Right.

We've deployed the 3rd Division, starting with Ootsu,

as well as the 2nd Composite Brigade out of Zentsuji and Matsuyama.

Prime Minister, your guests should be arriving shortly.

The American and Chinese ambassadors have arrived, sir.

Okay, they're going. Moving out!

You miss your truck, huh, Mister?

Yeah, trading it for this broken down old boat was hardly worth it.

But you can't drive across a sea, can you?

Sorry, Genichiro.

I know you wanted to get back to Tokyo fast.

Now I'm dragging you along for this.

It's okay.

I'm just worried about my wife and daughter in Kobe.

Once this is taken care of, I'll deliver you to Tokyo, I promise.

Looks like the ground's still cracking on the seabed.

It's a person.

Poor guy.

The people around here had no time to run when the land started caving in.

Mister, look!

We're going through it! Hang on tight!

All right!

I can see the Tanba Mountains on the opposite shore!

Just two or three more kilometers!

Mister, up ahead!

What's that?

Mister, it's full of people.

Must be headed east, opposite of what we're doing.

It's dangerous...

Hey! There are bad whirlpools ahead! Be careful!

They'll well up fast from under you!

Where are you headed?

Kobe! I've got family in Kobe!

Then you'd better hurry! Kobe's sinking!

We've gotta hurry!

My wife's a terrible swimmer who can't even dog paddle!

Mister, behind us!

Oh, no! They're capsizing!

Mister, they're all gonna drown!

B-but, this boat's too small to save that many people!

They'll end up swarming us and we'll go down with them!

We'll head for the shore and contact the SDF!

We'll ask them to send help!

Genichiro, what are you doing?!

You want to dump the cargo to take some aboard?

All right, dump it all out!

It doesn't matter how many there are!

We'll shuttle them to shore! Even if it's just one at a time!

Mister! Thank you!

Women and children first!

Anyone wearing a life jacket, wait!

Take this Child!

Come on!

I'll be back with help, soon!

Genichiro!

Where are you?!

Genichiro! Genichiro!

Genichiro!

Genichiro!

Genichiro!

Genichiro's idea saved the lives of dozens of people.

But even days later, I hadn't found him.

At that time, Genichiro said...

He said...

Mister! Thank you!

He shouted, "Thank you!" to me.

He thanked me...

Report from Eastern Area forces, 1st Division!

As of 1100 hours today, all survivors are confirmed evacuated from Tokyo.

Thank you.

The provisional government will now depart for Sapporo.

Please hurry.

Prime Minister.

We're the last ones, Prime Minister lshikura.

Mr. Ryu... My condolences for your son and his wife.

And mine for your daughter and her husband.

We're both in mourning.

There are hundreds of thousands more victims buried beneath the sea and ash and rubble in Tokyo.

Not just Tokyo.

In Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto... All of Japan.

Someday, we must memorialize every last one of them.

That is our duty.

Let's go.

Right.

August 18th, 2002 Japanese Provisional Government is established in Sapporo

August 20th Disaster Relief Requested from the United Nations

That Same Day The Request is Accepted

The United States and the People's Republic of China Dispatch Military Forces to Japan For Disaster Relief

February, 2003

Caring For girl (approx. 1.054.0.) Parents, please contact. Hyougo, Kobe Area Camp

Looking For Genichiro Ryu (Fifth Grader). Comes From Tokyo. If any info, please write below. Contact Goro Sakamaki

The relief supplies are here!

Okay, line up! Line up!

No sweat! We've got enough for everyone!

Looking For Genichiro Ryu (Fifth Grader). Comes From Tokyo. If any info, please write below. Contact Goro Sakamaki

Once I'd learned my wife and daughter had died, I thought about going back for him, over and over.

And even though I've come close to giving up on him completely...

Genichiro...

I still want to see you one more time.

Hey, Sakamaki!

We gotta head to the next camp!

Right!

What's with him?

Hey! Stop!

L-it's a man!

He's still alive.

Speak to me, pal! Hey!

Hey, pal...

This pouch... Does it...?

You've been looking for Genichiro...

I see... He's the grandson of a man like that.

So, Genichiro was lost in the channel?

I searched the beaches for a month, but never found him.

But while 35 people died in the sea that day, 23 people were saved.

It was Genichiro's decision then that saved them.

No...

you can add me in to the ones he saved and make it 24, along with this guy, too.

The way I see it, a kid like that wouldn't die so easily.

Don't you think so, Mr. Jimichi?

Sapporo Provisional Government Offices

It's just as we predicted.

The US and China have both requested observer status on the reconstruction committee.

Worst case scenario if we deny them is that they freeze their aid.

We'll have to allow it, Prime Minister!

What are you saying?!

If we allow that, they'd have hegemonic control over the reconstruction!

It would destroy Japan's sovereignty!

Is there no way Japan can recover on its own?

How's the outlook from the Federation of Economic Organizations?

It'd be difficult.

Honestly, if those two nations withdrew the funding we're dependent on, then Japan is finished.

The best we can hope for is to request that we participate in the reconstruction committee

even if we surrender the authority to direct it.

Except I doubt they'd give us money without any conditions.

Besides, no one nation, even ones like the US or China, could spend the money necessary for recovery.

I have a plan.

Why not propose that the recovery efforts be led by each nation's forces as currently deployed,

with China in the north and America in the south and the channel acting as the mid-point?

A recovery that divides us into a north and south?!

There'd be the danger of the development of a divided rule

as each side controls supplies and money for the recovery!

Only as far as we deem acceptable to each nation.

This is for Japan's survival.

Mr. Ryu, phone call for you. It's your secretary, Mr. Jimichi.

Mr. Ryu. Forgive my being out of touch for so long.

Oh, Jimichi!

I got a lead on Genichiro.

But no body has been confirmed.

And so, I believe that he's still alive, somewhere.

I see. Well done. Thank you.

Jimichi, I'm sorry, but could you repeat those words Genichiro said to him?

Yes, sir.

"There's got to be blue skies and sun...

above this volcanic ash," he said.

Prime Minister, we've no choice but to accept the evil of divided rule.

Mr. Ryu...

If we survive today, then tomorrow will come!

In February, the Japanese Provisional Government proposed divided rule in the north and south to the USA and the PRC.

In March, the proposal was accepted by both nations, beginning the divided rebuilding of Japan by America and China.

2017 (15 Years Since the Quake)

2017 (15 Years Since the Quake) New Senzai International Airport

N3L flight 43 for Hakata will begin boarding momentarily. Boarding will be through gate 5.

Okay, next, please.

Left hand, please.

National ID Number Name Surname Jimichi Furigana Kanji Romanization Address: Ogikubo, Suginami, Tokyo Occupation: Secretary to Takuma Ryu

CLEAR

Here you go.

Next, please.

Mommy, look! You can see Mt. Fuji below us!

Really.

So, that's Fuji now...

New Fukuoka International Airport

You're from the North Area. What's your business in the South Area?

I'm in transit, headed for Taiwan.

And your business in Taiwan?

Commercial.

Having been ripped apart by four major earthquakes,

the reconstruction of Japan was begun by the Reconstruction Committee's inviting

the United States to lead efforts in the south and China leading them in the north, with the U.N. mediating.

But, while movement between north and south was at first fairly free in the immediate post-disaster period

in order to facilitate the delivery of relief supplies and to reunite separated families,

15 years later, it became impossible to do so without a travel permit.

GUI HUA TRAVEL XING INTERNET GUANGDONG SMOKEHOUSE KING CARE EAR NOSE...

Taipei, Taiwan

Outskirts of Taipei Tamsui Japanese Temporary Refugee Camp

He'd be 26 now, assuming he's still alive.

I'm afraid he wasn't among the 80,000 temporary refugees here at Tamsui Camp.

I see.

Did you check the other refugee camps around the world?

Yes. I live in the North Area,

so it's taken me time to get to the South Area and our old friend Taiwan.

Fifteen years since the quakes, you can't freely travel between the north and south anymore

without travel authorization, in order to prevent black market goods and asylum-seekers running rampant.

Japan's getting worse and worse.

Same here.

We were glad when Taiwan accepted 100,000 refugees immediately after the disaster.

But years later, the reconstruction of the homeland isn't proceeding, and there's no work for us.

We're losing hope for any prospect of ever returning home.

Mr. Jimichi...

can you see that mountain there?

Yes.

The people here call it Taipei Fuji.

I don't think it looks like Mt. Fuji at all, but it feels worse not to think of it as that.

The irritation of not being able to return home.

The dissatisfaction at a hard life.

The fear that our homeland has abandoned us.

It's those feelings that drive us to call that mountain Fuji.

Brother Zhang! Trouble!

They're moving in on the Lungshan Temple night market!

Come on!

I'm busy now. Get someone else to handle it.

It's the Japanese!

More and more are coming! They're ready to fight!

Those filthy Japs!

They're getting out of hand!

This'll be exercise to help with my digestion.

Lead the way.

Okay, pal?

Welcome. What can I get for you?

The beef noodle soup here is great.

That's real Japanese, all right.

Huh?

Used to hang out in Shinjuku? Roppongi? Shibuya, maybe?

Huh?

Acting like a Taiwanese, huh?

You're as Japanese as we are, aren't you?

Huh?

Don't play dumb!

Outta the way! Outta the way!

Any Japanese who wanna mess with us have to mess with Zhang!

Any of you bastards who don't wanna get hurt had better clear out!

It's Zhang! Zhang from the Liu Hai Pang gang!

Zhang,huh? It's Zhang! Zhang from the Liu Hai Pang gang!

Zhang's here!

So, you're the dumb pig of a gangster I've heard about, huh?

Okay! You wanna try some Japanese steel?!

We'll give you a taste of Japanese spirit!

Better take me on as a group, 'cuz there's no way you can do it yourself.

Come at me!

What the hell are you doing?

Move, you little punk!

You're mistaken.

I'm not Japanese.

I'm Taiwanese.

You dissing me?

You son of a...!

Hey, hey, you're fighting the wrong guy.

Your target from the start has been me, Zhang, right?

Wh-what?

You're messing with food carts in Liu Hai Pang turf

because Boss Bai Dao-Meng is paying you punks pocket money, right?

I'm right, aren't I? It's written all over your face.

Fuck Japanese spirit!

You all were such hot shit before the quakes!

You Japs with all your money are now just running dogs for the Taiwan mafia!

W-we won't forget this!

Outta the way!

Get lost, Japs!

Keep quiet over at the Tamsui Japanese camp!

Yeah!

Here, pal, to repair your cart. Take it.

This will be more than enough to fix the cart.

Next time, please just come for something to eat.

My beef noodle soup's the best in Taiwan.

You hear that, Jap?

This guy's got the heart of a Taiwanese!

Man, this is a bad habit of yours, Bro. You've fallen for someone again?

Shut up!

When I was a kid, an old man read my fortune.

"Your destiny will open up because you will be infatuated by others," he said.

"As you fall for them, so shall you grow."

Pardon me. ls this Xian's home?

My, how large you are. Are you a friend of Xian's?

Y-yes! Are you Xian's mother?

Yes, I'm Xian's mother, Shu Qin.

I-I'm Zhang! It's a pleasure!

Xian is out getting the food cart repaired.

Would you like some tea till he returns?

I see...

The cart was broken by Japanese, you say?

It was nothing. I drove 'em off.

But your son's attitude was so admirable at the time, it made my heart swell!

He's a credit to all Taiwanese!

I get the feeling you love him dearly.

Strange, though...

You don't have any baby pictures of him.

He... He's not my child.

15 years ago, in Japan...

my late husband and I ran a Chinese restaurant in Kobe back then.

And we were caught in the Great Disaster in Japan...

Kobe and Osaka were flooded, and my husband and I fled east.

But Lake Biwa was broken as well, and we were at a dead end.

And there, we found a boy washed up on shore.

He had a marvelous cheerfulness to him as he recovered.

It sustained us after we'd lost everything and teetered on the brink of despair.

We registered our names on the government's list of temporary refugees to return to Taiwan.

We intended to find the boy's real parents and send him to them.

But he'd lost his memory, and could only remember a single kanji of his name, which we read as Xian.

My husband and I never had children of our own,

and we took the child as being heaven-sent for us to raise properly.

We said that he was our child, and returned here with him.

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Xian's in high school now. We can't keep hiding it from him.

We have to tell him the truth and return him to Japan.

Our job of raising him in place of his real parents is done now.

My husband died soon after saying that.

But, if I told him the truth and he regained his memories, I'd no longer be his mother.

I was afraid of that...

And so I've left my husband's wish unfulfilled...

to this day.

But, I've finally made up my mind.

It's all my fault that he's gone around claiming to be Taiwanese.

I'll tell him the truth today.

Even if he wants to return to Japan, then it can't be helped.

Because I don't want my dear Xian to proceed in his life from a lie.

Don't worry, ma'am.

Your son declared in front of me that he's Taiwanese!

Leave this to me!

Um, Bro, actually...

Outta the way. I got business with Xian.

Xian!

You heard?

Yeah. But I knew even without hearing it from her.

The truth is, I got my memories back.

What?!

I remembered about a year ago.

At first, I thought they were dreams.

But they weren't dreams.

What kind of memories?

All sorts.

Like my parents' faces at my elementary school entrance ceremony.

Thinking how pretty the cherry blossoms looked.

A frog I caught in our back yard.

But there's one thing I remember above all else.

What?

Fire and water.

My name is Genichiro Ryu, and I was born in Japan.

Hold on there.

Yesterday, in front of everyone, you said you were Taiwanese.

Was that a lie?!

It wasn't.

Yes, I was born in Japan and I remember my childhood.

And it's not like I don't care about the country of my birth or my real parents.

But more important to me are the memories of my Taiwanese father and mother!

During that disaster, Father and Mother took me in and loved me like their own child!

What I said last night was the truth from the bottom of my heart.

What I value isn't the past, but the mother I have here and now!

I've made up my mind.

I'm Taiwanese, the son of my father and mother.

Dammit, you really are a great guy!

I'm so happy! I wasn't wrong!

Dear, Xian...

Xian...

says thank you.

Dammit, I can't stop crying.

I grew up in an orphanage, and never saw my parents' faces.

So, you don't have parents or siblings, Zhang?

I got plenty.

Boss Huang in the Liu Hai Pang gang is like my father,

and there are guys who I consider to be older and younger brothers in it, too.

Liu Hai Pang...

I don't hear many good rumors about them. They say they deal in narcotics.

I-it can't be helped! This is all I've got!

Damn that old fortune teller!

He said I'd get bigger, but the only thing that has is my body!

I can't help but wonder if he was wrong about me.

Do you hate me for being a gangster?

No.

No matter what you do, you're just Zhang.

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Shopping every day must be tough.

Fresh produce is a food cart's lifeblood.

Get lost, Jap!

I said I won't sell to you, and I mean it!

Please, I have money! One cabbage, I beg of you!

Don't make me laugh! Who'd sell to a filthy alley cat like you?!

Filthy...?

Isn't that...?

Xia Tai-Tai. She's the boss of the Taipei markets.

Thanks to you people coming here, there are troublemakers everywhere!

Like hell I'll sell to you!

Yeah! Go home, Jap!

My son lost his job, thanks to you people!

Get out of here!

Go back and cling to your sunken island!

Yeah!

How much for a cabbage?

50 yuan.

Here, 50 yuan.

Here, 50 yuan, please.

Thank you so much!

You're Xian, right? Mind your own business!

"So long as they have money, a customer is a customer."

"A salesman's spirit discriminates against none."

Xia Tai-Tai, those are your words.

And I have run my cart with those words engraved in my heart.

It isn't like you not to sell to someone just because they're Japanese!

It's shameful to bully the weak. Just as shameful to ignore it.

What's that about bullying the weak?

Yang the Killer...

Let's hear you say that again, pal.

It's wrong to bully the weak.

You willing to trade a finger for those pretty words?

Thought so.

It's disgraceful to bully the weak!

Well said!

I've finally found it!

Till now, I've used my strength without knowing if it was for good!

Now I know what to use it for!

Xian, you're right!

Zhang!

You son of a bitch!

Hold it!

What's the meaning of this, Xia Tai-Tai?

My Yang stepped up in your defense. So, why side with the kid?

"Never discriminate, so long as your customer has money. That is a salesman's spirit."

My words.

That's why.

Be they Japanese, Taiwanese, or gangster, I don't discriminate against customers.

To my shame, I forgot that.

I like that.

Yang, could you cut Xia Tai-Tai?

Huh?

You couldn't, could you?

If you even scratched her, by tomorrow all the shops the Liu Hai Pang depend on

wouldn't be able to buy a single daikon in all of Taipei.

Even I wouldn't dare touch her.

And yet an unarmed kid went and told her off.

In any case, hands off that Xian kid.

And not one scratch on Zhang, either. Got it?

Understood. I'll forgive Xian.

But Zhang is one of us.

You can't just cover for him.

We have our own rules.

Next up, the bodies of a Japanese mother and son were discovered on the outskirts of Taipei this evening.

They were found at the ferry dock for Tamsui, with the mother and child's bodies bearing multiple cross-shaped slashes.

Police are treating it as a murder, and an investigation has begun.

At the moment, incidents are breaking out between Japanese refugees and locals.

I don't believe it! At the moment, incidents are breaking out between Japanese refugees and locals.

How low can someone sink?!

Yeah, yeah. He's here. How low can someone sink?!

Yeah, yeah. He's here.

Bro. Phone call.

Hello?

It's been a while, Zhang. Doing well?

Oh, Jing Ming. This takes me back. You back in town?

Zhang, thanks to you, I saw something I didn't like in the market yesterday.

What are you talking about?

What's happened to you, Zhang? Taking sides with a Jap.

You haven't forgotten how much we hate them, have you?

No, it's just-

Shit!

Zhang, you know, don't you? Tell me where to find Yang.

I'll tip off the cops!

I was the one who embarrassed Yang in front of the crowd!

If someone's going to get attacked, then let it be me!

Actually, Xian, it might have been my fault that mother and child were killed.

What do you mean?

Until I met you, I hated the Japanese.

That's the reason.

There's a guy named Jing Ming.

He grew up in the same orphanage as me on the outskirts of Taipei.

He was sickly, but stubborn.

He saw me as a big brother, and I loved him like a little one.

And there was an older girl we both loved.

Yao lived at the same orphanage, and she was very beautiful.

I'm getting married and moving to Japan.

Zhang, you and Jing Ming wait for me, and don't quarrel.

Once things settle down, I'll send for you to come to Japan.

But...

she never kept her promise.

The newspapers reported it as "Hostess Murdered in Songjian Hotel in Taipei."

She'd pressed a Japanese man who was a regular at the Taipei club where she worked to marry her,

and he strangled her to death.

"I never thought she took my marriage proposal seriously."

That's what the Japanese man who'd murdered her said.

As we stood before the fire that burned the presents she'd given us, Jing Ming and I swore an oath.

That so long as we lived, we'd never forgive the Japanese.

Not the Japanese, who'd toyed with her!

I just got a call from Jing Ming.

He saw you and me helping that Japanese woman in the market.

You're saying Jing Ming did it?

Out of spite for my breaking our vow.

If he's carrying on his vendetta against the Japanese, then as his big brother, I can't blame him.

No matter how deep in the dirt he goes, I have to understand his suffering.

That's what being a brother means.

A crime is a crime.

Even if this is between brothers, if there's a crime, I have to do all I can to make him see that!

And if he doesn't listen?

He will. I know he will.

If you truly wish for someone to hear, your voice will reach them!

That's what I believe!

Xian! I believe that, too!

If you truly wish him to hear it, your voice will reach him!

Zhang, where are you going?

I'm going to find Jing Ming and have him turn himself in.

My voice is the only one that will reach his heart!

Mio! Oh, poor Mio!

She so wanted to go back to Japan!

She and Yuusuke just wanted to go back to Japan!

How long do we have to put up with this?!

Now they're killing children?!

It's the fourth this year!

They say they don't know who did it!

It was a damn Taiwanese, of course!

At this rate, they won't let us Japanese out of this camp!

Yeah! Yeah! We can't take this anymore!

We have to teach the Taiwanese a lesson with our own hands!

The cops are in on it! They're no use!

We'll burn the place down!

Wait! Calm down!

I heard there were Taiwanese who helped those two in the market!

If we resort to violence now, it'll just isolate us even more!

Oh, like you understand! This guy's in on it, too!

Violence will only be met with more violence!

You people back home don't know how we feel!

Looks pretty restless.

And they've got weapons!

I'll call for backup.

You want to set fire to a powder keg? Wait here.

Yui, Taiwan police.

What do you want here, cop?!

Didn't you say you were investigating the death?

How about looking for live criminals instead of at dead bodies?!

I want to honor the dead.

Would you let me light incense for them?

Mio and Yuusuke were killed by a Taiwanese!

Leave!

I'm Japanese.

Don't bullshit us!

Japanese don't get to be detectives in Taiwan!

My father was a kikoku-sha.

Kikoku-sha

Those who had abandoned Japanese citizenship,

becoming citizens of the nation in which they were refugees, and assimilating into where they now lived.

A word which carried with it feelings of both jealousy and envy.

But, there are kikoku-sha here, too? I thought Taiwan was special.

The pre-disaster Japanese government never recognized Taiwan.

And so, they wouldn't recognize renunciation of Japanese citizenship in order to gain Taiwan residency.

But, in the post-disaster chaos, a small number of people with government connections snuck in and,

using the breakdown in government functions as an excuse,

successfully naturalized into Taiwan without a formal renunciation of citizenship document.

It was a back channel deal?

Which is why we have such antipathy for kikoku-sha in this country.

My real name is Ryotaro Hata.

I am a full-fledged Japanese.

It was my father who abandoned Japan.

As his son, I automatically was made Taiwanese.

But not once have I ever abandoned Japan!

Japanese blood runs inside of me!

And I will not stand for discrimination on the basis of being Japanese,

or allow the inhumanity of a criminal that would kill a mother and child!

If you have the slightest information that could help in this case, then tell me!

On the verge of them exploding, he's brought everyone's emotions under control.

This man...

How do you think it'll go?

Yang from Liu Hai Pang was with Xia Tai-Tai at the time of the murder, so he has an alibi.

There was a food cart kid in the market that helped the mother and child.

There are rumors he's Japanese...

You give me the power

You give me the strength

Naze ni hito wa kurikaesu no Why do people always

Onaji ayamachi onaji namida Make the same mistakes, shed the same tears?

Ushinatte kara hajimete kidzuku Why do they only realize what's most precious

Nani ga ichiban taisetsu na no ka Only after it's been lost?

Setsunasa ni tachidomaru When heartbreak stops you

Soredemo asa wa yatte kuru kara Morning will still come, either way

You give me the power

You give me the strength

Ashita ga kowakute When I fear tomorrow

Susumenai toki mo And cannot go on

You give me the power

So I can live stronger every day

Oshietekureta ne You taught me

lkiteru sore dake de imi ga aru to There is meaning in simply living on

You give me the power

You give me the strength

lkiteku chikara o ataetekureta You gave me the strength to live

I'll give you my power

So you can live stronger every day

Omotai tobira o The heavy door

lma issho ni hiraku no We'll now open together

Anata to You and I

You give me the power