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A Toho Movie Inc. and Toho Image Inc. Co-Production

Two hundred million years ago.

One hundred and fifty million years ago.

One hundred million years ago.

Sixty five million years ago.

Thirty million years ago.

Ten million years ago.

Three million years ago.

Present.

JAPAN SINKS

Associate Producer - Osamu Tanaka Executive Producer - Tomoyuki Tanaka

Screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto from the novel 'Nippon Chinbotsu' by Sakyo Komatsu

Music by Masaru Sato Director of Photography - Daisaku Kimura and Hiroshi Murai Production Designer - Yoshiro Muraki

Chief Assistant Director - Koji Hashimoto Editor - Michiko Ikeda Executive in Charge of Production - Takahide Morichi

Keiju Kobayashi

Tetsuro Tamba

Hiroshi Fujioka Ayumi Ishida

Director of Special Effects - Akihiro Nakano

Directed by Shiro Moritani

MISAKI PORT, KANAGAWA PREFECTURE

As a whole, the guys from the public office

are a little too nervous.

Itís just some deserted island thatís sunk.

Well, Onodera, this is Dr Tadokoro.

Ah, the sea volcanoes man.

Iím Mr Onodera from Kaitei Kaihatsu Kogyo.

Donít get me wrong. My line is Earth Physics.

Iíve been sticking my nose into so many things that Iíve become famous for everything else.

Ah, here it is.

Iíve asked your managing director to let me get in it any number of times, but he never...

Itís because he has too many meetings or banquets to go to.

Before long ďWadatsmi IIĒ will be completed.

Then our job rotation will be easier.

Youíre sure that you can go down ten thousand metres, arenít you?

Yes. We can.

When itís over 2000 meters, something relating the system of the ballast...

Well...the company ordered us not to get too committed.

All I want to know is whether itís possible to dive down to 10,000.

NORTH OF THE OGASAWARA ISLANDS.

Okay, go ahead.

The average depth is 400. Itís childís play.

Iíll watch you through the underwater camera.

The doc is working hard.

I hope that they can go through with it like they say.

It didnít fracture because of the eruption.

Itís collapsed from a secondary cause.

This island didnít sink because of volcanic action.

How deep is it inside the crater?

96 metres.

The ocean floor extends like this quite far, doesnít it?

Ripple mark.

That many volcanic rocks and bombs?

The mud on the floor moved very recently.

This area seems to me

to have subsided slightly in a wide range.

No, this isnít so much subsistence as a landslide.

Itís not due to volcanic action but to a landslide on the ocean floor

that made the island sink like this.

Well, what...what caused a landslide that big?

No idea.

No, I have no idea at all.

Anyway, I canít help thinking that the cause of the landslide is the trench.

Tomorrow, weíll check out the trench...

Is that OK? Onodera?

Yes. Theoretically, you can go down 100 thousand metres in Wadatsumi.

If there was a sea that deep.

However, its structure wonít allow you to stay there long.

From Daitomaru from the Meteorological Agency,

At a trench off the Boso coast intersecting Ogasawara trench and the Japan trench,

sonic survey has picked up something abnormal.

After research of the cause of the islandís submersion,

theyíre requesting general research of that trench.

You donít have to worry about the island.

Weíre going to the Japan Trench tomorrow.

Wadatsmi is going to submerge.

1500.

3000 metres.

The slope goes down to the left

Distance 11km. Slope 25 degrees.

The incline of the ocean floor is usually gentler. In this way, 10 or 15 degrees...

8000 meters.

Wh...what? Malfunction?

No, itís a deep sea current.

A current at this depth?

Donít ask me why. Sometimes we hit one.

But this is the most dynamic current weíve ever seen, itís flowing at least 3.5 knots.

This is the bottom of the Japan Trench.

8740 metres.

A few days ago, there was a violent undercurrent from south to north.

An old ripple mark is over there,

running east to west.

Can you move it at this depth 7 degrees starboard?

What is that, Onodera?

I have no idea.

Iíve been to the bottom of the trench a few times, but Iíve never seen anything like this.

Letís go and trace

the path of that monstrous slugís crawling.

8500 metres.

Waterís getting muddy.

Is...is it all right?

Hercules. Hercules.

Yuki. This is Wadatsumi, over.

This is Hercules, over.

Did you feel an abnormal vibration right now?

Just a minute.

Nothingís registered.

Weíve set a sound locater at 100 metres, but it hasnít picked up anything.

The readout canít tell us anything because of the mix of different minor vibrations.

Roger

I found a strange trough at the bottom of the trench, so Iím going to go north along it.

OK.

Send a ping every minute.

Roger.

Itís dangerous to go down, so Iíll keep going this way.

OK. You can do that.

The trench vanishes in front of that muddy cloud. Keep this straight.

Whoa!

Go down to the bottom again.

But going down any further is...

Doctor, too danger-

You went down to the bottom before, didnít you?

Underwater flare, then.

Now letís go down.

Well, doctor...

To the bottom! Another 50 meters, to measure the temperature, the density, and the saline concentration.

Onodera, watch out down there,

be careful and be ready to go up anytime if necessary. OK?

Thereís an unstable layer in the density of the sea floor.

The current is from south to north.

Itís opposite to the normal trench current.

Density 1.053.

This is the maximum value of seawater density.

The concentration of salt.

It must be heavy.

A lot of heavy ions.

Collect a sample.

Doctor, we donít have time for that.

A flare!

Doctor...th..that..

Turbulent muddy current.

At this depth.

Besides, that goes from the trench of the crust on which the Japan islands are

to the dark side of the Pacific Ocean; Japan Trench,

and to the north of Kamchatka,

to the south. It goes from Ogasawara to Mariana,

the largest trench in the world, to the Japan Trench.

At the bottom, something is...

Something is happening.

From Keishi 3 to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Keishi 3, go ahead. Over.

02. 8:43 p.m. Prime Minister arrived at his private house.

Roger.

Welcome home.

Oh, Yachan.

Itís been a while.

Yachanís kid.

So cute.

Yachan was there for eight years as a director of the Finance Ministry,

so his kid is like your grandchild.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, then.

You didnít even change your clothes.

People have some strange sense.

The words you heard before without much interest...

pop up into your mind without warning.

Yamamoto is a chief director of the Meteorological Agency.

He felt some problems about something unusual at the Japan Trench.

Sir, this has been finished.

Hi.

Yes?

Hey. For you.

Yes? Onodera speaking.

Yes, your...that Wadatsumi.

How much will it cost to charter it for an extended period of time?

It depends, so should I put this call

through to the business department?

Can I use it now, if I apply right now?

No, thatís not possible.

Wadatsumi is around Kyushu to investigate the sea floor between Shimonoseki and Pusan.

And then it will go to Indonesia to investigate an offshore oil field,

so it will be booked for one year.

A year?

Doctor...

What do you want to investigate by chartering Wadatsumi for so long?

You...you should have seen it, together with Yukinaga.

Doctor, what is it?

Whatís going on in the Japan Trench?

I wish I knew.

Because that even I donít know, itís essential that we investigate.

However, even though Japan is a maritime power,

it has no more than one deep sea submarine for 10000 meters.

Are you going home now?

Yeah.

From tomorrow Iím taking the vacation I couldnít have before.

Hey, why not take a chance on getting married?

Huh?

Instead of being stuck as a pilot,

you should be doing a job with brain work, using your mind.

Considering that and the reputation you have, I think itís about time you got married.

Come on, letís go now.

Where?

To Hayama.

Hayama?

Thereís a woman whoís the eldest daughter of a local well-to-do family.

Her name is Abe Reiko, 27, pretty gorgeous.

But Iím in such shabby clothes.

Iím going to be meeting her parents, arenít I?

No, her parents are in Shimoda, Izu. Sheís alone in their second house.

Would you like another cup?

No thanks. Iíve had enough.

Iíll miss my train if I donít go soon.

Are you going to marry me?

I donít know. Todayís the first day I met you.

But Mr Yoshimura wants it to happen, by all means.

My father is begging me to get married soon because of my age...almost in tears.

But somehow I feel itís just a marriage of convenience.

A marriage of convenience?

My father owns three or four small islands off the shore of West Izu.

It was your company that did the investigation of sea floor, wasnít it?

Yes, it was.

According to the boring the development department did later, there is a vein of ore there.

Itís not going to be any marriage of convenience.

How come?

Iím not interested in desk work. Iíll stay in the submarine for the time being.

Is the submarine big?

No, it holds three crew at most, but it can go down to 10,000 metres.

10,000 metres?

I canít imagine that.

Well, whatís the sea floor like?

Nothing there.

Just a hushed frozen desert.

But a wind blows. Fantastic...

There are great sand storms, greater than any you can think of.

Letís go swimming.

Go swimming, shall we?

You will get married

sooner or later.

Yeah.

Why?

What for?

To have a baby?

Hey.

Hold me.

Get up!

Come on, hurry.

Thatís an eruption.

That's Amagi. Get out of here!

Iíll tell you the damage.

Some 2700 houses have collapsed or been wiped out by the earthquake, eruption, and tsunami

About 30,000 other houses suffered damage.

The dead and missing number 236 people.

The lava from Mount Amagi has nearly reached Atagawa.

If you include railways, roads, and tourism facilities,

the total amount of damage is enormous.

Thereís no warning or forecast

for these eruptions or earthquakes, is there?

According to what Iíve heard from scholars

A study on earthquakes has made much progress,

but hasnít reached accurate prediction of them yet.

They say that they have too small a budget for their study.

What do you think of the recent report on the Japan Trench from the Meteorological Agency?

Well, what exactly in the Japan Trench are you talking about?

Oh, thatís fine.

We're taking care of it.

By the way, from all of you today

I was given many useful opinions, which I really appreciate.

Now the Earth is in a period of the severest land movement we have seen.

Beneath Japan, the structural line itself is beginning to change.

Instead of technical terminology,

Iíd like things put more clearly and simply.

There is deep trench beside the Japan Islands,

about which Iíd like to know.

As I was about to say just now,

the Earth can be compared to an egg.

A boiled egg is the best comparison, I guess.

Its surface, which is an eggshell in the case of an egg,

we call the crust.

Very thin.

And the part inside the earth, in an egg, the white,

we call the mantle.

Well, mantle is like clothing: mantle.

And inside it is the core.

We already know that the core is liquid.

Therefore, in that sense, the Earth, or the boiled egg,

is in the state of being half-done, which is the best description, I think.

You peel off part of the surface of this half-done boiled egg,

below it, the mantle,

which I said a little while ago is solid,

and in the solid body, there is a very, very slow current.

It flows several centimetres a year. That slow.

Oh, the solid body flows?

Yes, for example, in the case of some tunnel construction sites,

iron poles are used as props

They bent like starch syrup in the long course of time

which I guess you have seen.

Even the solid body flows like that, doesnít it?

Have you got the film on the current of the mantle?

Yes. It's as you outlined it.

Inside this solid mantle,

there is a slow movement we call the convection of mantle

and in it there are ascending spots and descending spots.

Ascending spots form sea mountain ranges, and descending spots form trenches.

What has arisen flows sideways,

just like some liquid heated by an alcohol lamp,

rising and flowing sideways.

You mean an underwater mountain range is around here.

What has arisen moves horizontally after a while,

and at some point sinks into the earth.

Thatís the trench just like this Japan Deep.

While the trench goes down further and further,

the sediment carried from the land builds up,

and becomes the thick land mass here,

which heaves up later.

A mountain range has formed here at this trench.

It means there's a subterranean current, doesnít it?

But such a current...I guess there isn't anybody who hasn't seen it.

Yes, everyone's seen it.

Now, start with the central submarine mountain range in the Atlantic.

Yes, sir.

Atlantic Ocean.

In the Atlantic, the aforementioned mountain range goes right through the central area.

This part like a fish bone...

At this point things erupt and move away to the right and left

along this movement, the continent,

though very slowly,

is thought to have moved away.

A continent originally joined together

moved away on the current which erupted around here,

and settled in the current position, we think.

You mean continental drift is related to the current of mantle, donít you?

Next, letís think about the Pacific.

In the Pacific, there is a submarine mountain range around here.

If you remove the sea water,

you will see a backbone,

and at this point, things erupt, move horizontally across the Pacific,

and sink in around here at the Japan Deep.

Pulled by the movement, the tip of the Japan islands comes forward,

but sometimes slips back.

This slipping back is the earthquake.

Along with earthquakes, debris melting and rising form volcanoes.

In this way, an earthquake also has something to do with the underground movement.

Do you understand?

The earth moves...no, lives, doesnít it?

A variety of phenomena are certainly happening,

and by understanding this living earth,

the mysteries of the earthquakes and volcanos have been deciphered,

Prime Minister.

I had a chance to join the observation recently.

To the north of Ogasawara and southeast of Torishima, a small island sank no less than 200 metres in a night.

I also saw a high- density turbulent mud current at the bottom of the Japan Trench.

The deep seismic centres in Japan have been, in general,

moving to the eastern sea floor for several years.

Yes, under the ground in Japan,

different things are happening, that's for certain.

Nobody, however, still knows what it means.

And, today, our aim is not to argue about things from an academic point of view,

but to make the Prime Minister and other ministers understand the general situation.

Yes, that is why I came here to say something to the Prime Minister.

Iíd like him as a statesman to be very prepared for what might happen.

Do you mean a big earthquake or something like that?

Could be an earthquake.

Iíve no idea what more could happen than that.

Anyway, all we can do is investigate the ocean floor, especially the Japan Trench.

Well, I have to attend to some other business now.

As usual.

You'd better not mind it so much.

What he is talking about is an problem of a very large scale,

and it canít be resolved in a few days.

But it's said that he is a rather famous scientist abroad.

Yes, to some extent.

The sponsor of his lab is the BAC World Oceanic Foundation.

Ah, is it?

Oh, I forgot.

Yukinaga. Though we are busy...

You're Mr. Tadokoro, arenít you?

Iíve been expecting you. Please come this way.

He's here.

Mr. Tadokoro?

Sit down.

I want to ask you one question.

Swallows.

Swallows?

That's right.

Under the eaves of my house

swallows come and build their nests every year.

However, they came and built nests last May,

but then disappeared in July

and it was the end of it. They havenít appeared this year at all.

Why is this?

The same thing has been happening not only to you, but also everywhere in the country.

Ornithologists say it is because of changes in the terrestrial magnetism and the weather and so forth,

but I think they alone are not the cause.

The number of swallows decreased 120 to one this last year.

It's not only birds...

we can also see drastic changes in migrating fish.

What in the world?

A sign of something ominous?

You canít spell it out.

Iím struggling to grasp something.

What have now is some vague fear, and I canít still say anything clearly.

I see.

Another question.

What is most important for a scientist?

Gut feeling.

Gut feeling?

If you put it like this...

you can understand this newspaper was once joined together, canít you?

In 1912

a scholar in Germany named Wegener was looking at a map

and noticed that the continents North America, South America, and Africa

could be joined together.

So he made his own theory of Continental Drift public.

In those days, however, technology was not advanced enough to prove his theory.

Heíd made a fool of himself and died thinking as such in 1930.

Nowadays, nobody doubts the Continental Drift theory.

We don't charter...

We're going to purchase a submarine from France and hire it out.

The Kermadec.

This submarine can reach a depth of 10,000 metres.

You should carry out this survey in secret.

We'd like you to wash your hands of this survey with BAC,

little by little.

Assistant Geophysicist Yukinaga

is also going to take part in this project.

Yukinaga, too?

So, what is this project?

OK, we've figured you're on board, so I can tell you my position and name...

I'm Kunie, Cabinet Survey.

I'm Nakata.

I major in Cognitive Science.

I make analyses of probability theory in natural phenomena.

Here you are.

I'd like you to select others for this project who you feel are right.

What about an operator? We don't want any Frenchmen...

Then you can select who you think is best.

One guy. Just one.

I'll persuade him to join us at all costs.

By the way...I didnít catch who you are.

I'm Mimura, secretary to the Prime Minister.

Although I don't belong to D Plan, I'm on the Prime Minister's personal staff.

Magnitude 2.

Mark east longitude 130 degrees, 14 minutes, north latitude 30 degrees, 25 minutes.

In addition, according to the report of the BAC World Sea Foundation,

the eruption began in the Southwest Islands of Japan at the Kirishima volcano under the sea.

Mr Onodera has made his resignation in Marseilles.

There are boundaries to such whims!

The Kermadec arrived in Moji from France yesterday. Moji!

The Kermadec arrived in Moji?

A salvage company in Kobe bought it.

Some rundown outfit like that couldn't afford a submarine.

It's a dummy company. Some big corporation started submarine development.

Mr Onodera was lured over by the company, then he carried out the purchase in France.

But Mr Onodera wouldn't just run out like that!

Stop here.

Oh, Mr Onodera...

Where on earth are you?

The company is having problems since there aren't sufficient helmsmen.

So rather than put up with it I have to go there and supervise.

You can't dive, can you?

I've been phoning since I left Tokyo.

My father was killed in the Izu earthquake.

His funeral arrangements will be finished,

and when things settle down, I think I'll go abroad.

If you get this message please call me in Hayama, OK?

Although there isn't any special reason...

I wanna see you again.

Well, this is where the automatic measuring equipment is installed.

Yes, this is the robot monitor.

Geeothermal energy, vibration, slant...

A Marine Defence Force chopper will check changes of temperature,

terrestrial magnetism, and abnormal gravity,

and send them here with Akashi.

Old Watari has let go of a picture?

A collection of pictures?

The money he got from those pictures is part of our fund now.

Who the hell is this old man?

I don't know him well. They say he's a fixer in Japanese politics and economics.

He pushed our Prime Minister into the presidential election of the Liberal Democrat party.

Well, he has lived up to 100 years, through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras,

and still has influence in the dimmer reaches of Japan.

I don't know if the Prime Minister consulted him or the old man just came out with it.

I'm sure his involvement set this D Plan on its way.

Yeah.

Kermadec is out of order.

Yes, it's less efficient that the Wadatsumi. They overworked it.

Even Kataoka can't handle it, so they'll send it to the dock in Yokosuka.

On Akashi the interim report so far will be announced at 3 pm today.

Three o'clock?

We'll take a chopper from the Defence Agency to Kasumigaura Base.

Then from there we can take PS-1 of the Marine Defence Force.

Seen from up here, Tokyo isn't altogether so bad, huh?

The population is 12 million.

Economically, it's the most prosperous city in the world.

People buy houses, have children, and raise them here.

A girl who wants to be a singer...

A university student who wants to work for a big company after graduation...

With joys and sorrows mixed together

No matter the situation, people are trying their best.

You're so sentimental. Sounds as if you were saying goodbye to Tokyo.

Is it OK with these waves?

No problem, sir.

We can go down to a 3 metre swell.

Hi.

It's been hard.

We had a very tough mission without a single day off

At a point offshore of Kinkazan.

We finished the survey.

The present location of this ship is...

Yes, this is the observation post. It's 5843 metres deep.

Wind direction and velocity east-north-east, 12 knots.

If you'll all take a seat, I'll explain.

What I'm going to tell you is

the mantle on the Pacific side is changing too rapidly.

Land is emerging and it's moving.

This movement of the Earth's crust is due to the convection of the mantle.

That flow of the mantle is

the same unless the size of the core changes

but the Earth's core is getting larger year by year.

It takes the continents a very long time to move.

This is because the flow of the mantle is very slow.

You could say it's almost fixed.

But this flow of the mantle is

going to change as the core gets bigger, and could change dramatically in a moment.

It's a theory of Chandra Secal, an Indian living in America now.

Scientifically, it's sound.

The Earth has life, so it's evolving.

The planet's own evolution is developing just like other creatures.

Not the repetition of past periodical movements,

but the emergence of totally new aspects.

Our knowledge about what will happen after this isn't sufficient.

But Doctor,

how can you talk about something we can't predict from the extrapolation of past data?

I know it by intuition.

There's already too much speculation.

There are some areas of minus graviation and terrestrial heat.

Abnormal areas of the geothermal current are moving rapidly eastbound.

Rapid sinking of the continental slopes.

All of this shows the mantle's restructuring on the side of the Pacific.

In every place of the Pacific Coast of the Japanese archipelago,

the crust of the Earth will either shrink or break.

Doctor!

Even a child can understand what will happen after that.

The mantle on the side of the Sea of Japan will push the archipelago up like this.

The mantle on the side of the Pacific Ocean will act as a wedge and prop it up.

And if this wedge were gone, what would happen?

What extent of damage do you estimate from that scale of movement?

I donít know!

Would the resulting earthquake be over Magnitude 8?

Definitely.

It's attached to the movement.

In the worst case...

In the worst case, most of the Japanese archipelago will sink into the sea.

Oh my god.

Could I have your attention, please.

A large earthquake has struck the Kanto area.

Help! Help me!

Don't let it catch fire!

We were overcome by the fire at the Kanto earthquake.

It's all right, grandpa.

I turned off the gas and stoves.

It's no use escaping in the wide areas.

At the quake,

4000 people were burned to death in a clothing factory compound.

Don't start any fires. Just don't start a fire.

Do you have video relay from the observation plane yet?

Yeah...I'm not getting contact with U173.

Observation plane. Transmit.

State of Emergency headquarters.

The government is broadcasting disaster information,

I repeat, the government broadcast, at 6:30 pm,

to Tokyo, Kanagawa prefecture, Chiba prefecture, and Saitama prefecture,

will provide disaster information.

Defence Agency observation plane U173.

About 300 fire outbreaks in Chiyoda ward and Chuo ward,

including Minato, Toshima, and Taito.

Citizens who have lost their homes and shelters are looking for evacuation stations,

and are heading in a steady stream towards the Imperial Palace Square.

Firefighters.

What is the Fire Department doing?

There are about 6000 estimated wildfires around Tokyo,

but, because there are so many obstacles on the roads,

and firestorms over 20 mph,

We can't get close enough to stop them.

According to a report from a fire truck which risked the roads,

the reservoir is shut down and we can't get any water.

Are you planning to mobilize the helicopters at Kazumigazeki?

Yes, we'll try to set up barricades against the fire.

What will happen if the centre of the state of the nation is completely razed?

No. That's not what I mean.

Private houses. Living areas and private homes.

General!

Not only helicopters, but also surveillance aircraft and fighters.

Can't you load retardants on them and target the fire zones?

Slim chance.

They can't go as low as the 'copters, and it's dangerous, it will only add confusion.

Call Yokosuka Base.

Emergency Dispatch.

Yokosuka District Headquarters. Transmit.

This is Yokosuka. Transmit.

The General of Emergency Ops, in the house of the Prime Minister.

Load all the 'copters of the Defence Agency with retardants and mobilize them to Tokyo Bay.

They're now putting out fires in Yokohama and Kawasaki in response to a request from the Kanagawa governor.

You don't mean to cancel the mission for Yokohama and Kawasaki, do you?

From the Meteorological Agency to Emergency Ops HQ.

As of 1820 hours, according to reports from the meteorological observation posts around Kanto district,

aftershocks are expected, and their estimated magnitude is...

The bombardment from the 'copters

don't seem to have much effect,

but for now we have no choice to rely on the Defence Agency bombers.

What are the reconnaissance planes and fighters for...?

To protect our nation?

What is it that we protect? The life and assets of our people?

This is the Metropolitan Police Department to Emergency Provision Centre.

MPD.

The crowds are clashing with mobile troops in front of the Imperial Palace.

Will you authorise weapons for suppression?

We're waiting for your orders.

On the periphery of the crowds a number of people have succumbed to heat and fallen.

There appear to be fatalities from the firestorm and other causes.

Open the gate!

You can't go into the Palace! You will have to find shelter outside.

Please open the gate! Please!

Please let the children in, at least!

Connect me with Director General of the Imperial Household Agency.

Yes sir. IHA.

This is the Emergency Provision Centre, may I speak to the Director General?

Here you are.

This is Prime Minister Yamamoto. Open the gate.

Please open the gate!!

This is the commander of the EPC, Prime Minister.

Open the gate immediately and admit the civilians into the Palace.

Understood.

Ohta Ward, on and on, and other wards...

According to the wards en route we'll change the supply base of extinguisher bombs and fuel.

No, we've finished the bombardment operation.

What?

We've used all the bombs stored at each base.

After you land on the set base, supply fuel and transfer to the information centre.

Prime Minister.

We haven't yet grasped the extent of the damage by the fire.

But the MPD and the Fire Defence Agency

have confirmed the destruction of part of the Edogawa Ward.

Initially it was impossible for people to evacuate that area.

What's the population there?

Around 700,000.

In outlying areas like like Suginami, Setagaya and Nerima,

the firefighters prevented the fire from spreading to some degree.

In several parts of Tokyo, med teams have started treating casualties

How about food and water?

Provisions from the Self Defence Army have been issued.

Still, the Self Defence Army has emergency rations for 1,100,000 meals.

1,100,000 meals?

Mimura. The population of Tokyo is...

I wonder how many people have suffered the damage from this earthquake, the fire and the flood.

I have no idea at all yet.

One million...No, maybe way more than that.

How on earth did Tokyo get in this state?

Don't tell me this is a bad omen of THAT.

TOTAL NUMBER OF DEAD AND MISSING

3,600,000

Three months have passed since that day of hell.

The state of panic was dissipating,

and law and order were finally beginning to be restored.

It's ironic.

I can hear the words of my departed wife, laughing,

"Japan is a peaceful country,

So I thought you would see through your term of office as the least outstanding Prime Minister.

But that's all over now.

Make a change, and make it decisively."

I also think that way...but things are not the way I think.

If you give up, that plan will end.

It's not an official one.

We can't have the next cabinet take it over.

Give me the synchro...

DC Centre. This is D1 HQ.

Now we're going to check the AB screen circuit.

Relay the location of RM.

Check CRT.

Will that really happen?

I guess not.

A diastrophism a thousand times larger than this Tokyo quake.

I can't believe it.

No, that can't be correct.

The more data, the more certainty.

What will happen, then?

In my opinion, most people will be killed,

and this is because

most people will not believe such a thing could happen.

Yeah...

Where is Mr...?

He's in conference.

Meeting the Prime Minister directly to instruct him about the D2 project.

D2 project?

Yes, we've come to the end of the D1 project, it's time for D2.

But the Prime Minister seems too busy to see anyone.

Mr Tadokoro is getting irritated

and is suggesting that they should all go to the old master in Hakone.

Ah, and D1 is supposed to get a higher budget so they can get three submarines.

We could charter Wadatsumi and Wadatsumi II from the developer of Seabed Kogyo.

You!

Hey, you!

You! Stop!

Come on, get up.

Mr Onodera,

Why didn't you say anything to me, and -

Your colleagues were worried about you.

You know that?

This time, the Wadatasumi

will be chartered by the company which bought the Kermadec.

After looking in different places

I found you right here.

I...I'm going to resign from the company.

I'm not unfamiliar with the Kermadec.

Youíre in charge of Wadatsumi II.

You can't dive if I'm not there on board.

And, Mr Onodera,

yesterday a woman visited the head office of the temporary HQ at Yaesuguchi.

She was extremely worried about not hearing from you...

She said she was Abe Reiko.

Please look carefully

at these mountains and lakes in Japan.

Will these really vanish into the sea?

Dr Tadokoro,

Will you believe the facts as they appear?

I've looked at the investigation results and I'm increasingly certain of it.

As Mr Nakata explained to you,

not only is there the D1 Plan for investigation

but also D2 for evacuation.

Come on!

Donít be alarmed.

The mass of mountains in Hakone, Tanzawa area, which subsided at the last Tokyo earthquake,

are rising slightly to form some sort of equilibrium.

Youíre Nakata, right?

Yes.

Apart from the past research,

when it comes to the sheltering project for D2,

this is going to be an extraordinary undertaking.

What will happen if it doesn't come through, even though youíre showing how serious we are about it?

Weíll all be called humbugs

and treated as madmen.

However if this day does come and we prepare a certain amount of management,

more than three to five percent of the population will be saved, which is better than sitting idle.

Five percent of 100 million is 5 million people.

All right. I'm going to Tokyo. I have business.

The budget will increase from billions to dozens of billions,

and exceed the limit of the secret service fund.

And also this will not end up

with just a desk plan.

Negotiations with the countries that are going to take care of our ships and airplanes

are, politically, a hell of a big global issue.

For that, I'm going to give the cabinet an unprecedented scale reform,

shuffling the ministers of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Monetary and Economic Planning.

They're familiar to foreign countries and well accepted.

I may appoint some civilians, just to be on the safe side.

But Prime Minister, I wonder what the chief secretary will say?

To begin with, the security has been settled,

and I think it's time for you to focus on reviving domestic conditions.

Besides, what if this turns out to be a complete mistake,

the delusion of some eccentric academic,

or just a miscalculation?

In general, the Japanese people are a little too savvy

if some crank starts making a noise

with some insane idea that the whole of Tokyo will be wiped out by an earthquake,

and the mass media making a beat-up of it, on top of that.

Although it won't make me any money or get votes in the election,

any party or government would unwillingly issue some overriding measures.

If some of them are already settled,

at least 3.6 million people...

I'm sure we will pull through.

OUTER SUBURBS, CANBERRA

THE COUNTRY VILLA OF THE PRIME MINISTER

We have a difficult job.

Seto Inland Sea, bays everywhere,

and a part of the Japan Sea still remains.

As a result, however, the first plan by Mr Tadokoro...

Does this mean you?

To Toshio Onodera. Come back soon. Your mother is near death. Your brother, Masao.

I thought so.

You haven't told your parents that you've left your job.

You should go back home since you have settled up here.

Yeah, I will.

You revealed highly classified material even though you were a key member of the project!

Your behaviour had been worrying us so we put a tail on you for a week...

to see if you could be trusted.

How could we even think

that you would reveal D Plan or our Head Office?

I didn't reveal so much, just expressed my own view as a scientist.

I can't imagine what else he might say.

They say he's going to appear on TV.

On TV?

Tell him not to say another word about our operation.

Right.

THE JAPANESE ISLANDS WILL SINK!? A shocking interview with authority Dr Tadokoro

- imminent 8.9 earthquake! - abnormal tectonic movement shifting Japan!

About this matter...

What is your opinion, Dr Tadokoro?

Being in the situation of a scholar taking orders...

Well, I mean, scholars are free to study whatever they like.

It's okay, I think, if you are certain of it...

If you reveal it to the world it will cause social upheaval...

There is no absolute certainty.

If it happens, then it's all over for us.

Don't! stop it!

Wait a minute!

Stop!

Calm down.

Should I turn it off?

Go ahead.

The trouble over there has come to an end.

Yes.

The three of them haven't slept long.

So leave them as they are.

Yes, sir.

THE FUTURE OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE

Nakata, you son of a bitch. Why Dr Tadokoro?

It's the end of his life both as a scientist and as a respectable citizen.

It's not me that asked.

It's him that discussed it with old Watari and took over on his own.

Why didn't you stop him? He's the key consultant of this mission.

Nobody's more suitable than Dr Tadokoro.

What?

D2 has already started negotiations with some other countries.

No matter how hard we try to contain this,

the news will leak out from abroad anyway,

and then there'll be a panic here.

The government can't pretend that they don't know what's going on.

That's why we couldn't help informing people

and observing their reactions.

Yukinaga, nothing we do will make any difference.

Anyway, the TV program today did enough.

I don't think he will be able to do that much, either.

This is the resignation form

I've had prepared this week.

Run it through the proper channels.

I think I can understand

the way he feels.

No wonder he's a bit crazy, but still a great man.

He has no social status or fame he needs to cling to.

No, that's not it.

It's that he feels desperately sad

that it was him that discovered this big blow.

THE FUTURE OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE: D2 OUTLINE

One is a priest from Nara.

One is a sociologist from Kyoto.

One is a psychologist from Tokyo.

The three of them are now stationed in my second home in Hakone.

I ordered them there to put things right regardless of the hour.

The Imperial Family should go to Switzerland.

One from the Imperial Clan to the US,

and another to Africa, I believe.

They're divided into three.

Not according to area, but to cases.

One is for the Japanese people to make a new homeland somewhere.

Another is for them to disperse around the world and become integrated into foreign countries.

And another is for those who can't be accepted by any country.

In the third envelope is another opinion.

The opinion of the three of them seem to have agreed there.

It says

that we had better not do anything for now.

Better not do anything?

That's right.

Do you think 110 million people would just slip quietly into the sea with Japan?

The last scenario left for Japan and the Japanese.

But Mr Watari,

It's just a secondary opinion.

Don't be concerned.

I just think the Prime Minister had better know

that someone has such an idea.

OSAKA

Well, how about eating some puffer fish to purify ourselves?

Can we do that now?

Sure, we can wait for fried stuff tomorrow.

I made my wife and children go home.

You'll go back to Tokyo.

I have something to talk to you about.

Canada?

Yeah, in Kansai district

different projects are now being cancelled or pending.

We can't make any progress because of the heavy subsistence.

Experts are saying it'll stop any time, but it's not stopping at all.

Well I don't seem to have much to do.

Besides, I don't have to take care of your mother any more.

Actually, in an oil field in Manitoba,

there's a job opening for a developer.

That's good.

Of course that includes your wife and Ichiro.

She doesn't want to go.

No - the sooner, the better, brother.

No matter what she says, the sooner -

It's easy for you to say.

Why do you keep on about it?

Brother.

You should get out of here as soon as possible. Japan is...

Get away! All of you. Get out now.

Get away, run, all of you! Just go!

Maybe next spring will come, but summer...I don't know.

Autumn...even less likely.

Japan...Japan!

Oh...excuse me.

Excuse me.

Excuse me...

Onodera!

Onodera, Iíve been trying to find you!

Well, the simulation we're going to give is Dr Tadokoro's achievement.

He's not at these headquarters now,

but it's based on the carrier wave

from the robot monitor that Dr Tadokoro installed at short notice.

And I'd like to say on top of that, both the USA and the USSR

have already launched as many as three geostationary satellites in orbit over Japan,

and they have already begun receiving transmission.

Time scale is that a quarter of a second equals 25 hours.

OK.

DC center, put the simulation on standby.

On standby. OK.

Let's start.

10, 9, 6, 7, 6

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, go.

Well, red stands for positive energy,

and blue for negative energy.

These opposing forces of energy will distort the islands of Japan.

Stop.

From here. What was the time?

302 seconds flat.

Let's drop the time scale down by half.

One second is 12.5 hours.

Hadn't we better drop another quarter?

No, if we drop any lower, we won't be able to get the details.

ACRT OK.

BCRT OK.

DCRT OK.

Go.

Look. This should be the start.

As you see, below the surface, the energy on the Pacific side

flows into the Sea of Japan.

The energy stored there accumulates,

sundering the islands and causing them to sink into the trench.

What is that horizontal band all about,

at the point 200 km below the surface?

The mantle on the Pacific side is moving in an accelerated heat flow,

cushioning the mantle on the continental side and pushing the Japanese islands southeast,

but at that speed crosses the flexibility threshold of the Earth's crust...

It's going to start.

The energy concentrates where the crust is weak...

or the shattered zone.

The eastern half of the islands to the east and the western half to the southeast

are slowly slipping, slanting and sinking with increasing speed.

What's the distance of the Islands' movement?

Horizontally, 35km at most, vertically, minus 2 km.

The eastern part of Japan will move east-south-east, and the western part will slip southeast,

Kyushu will turn anti-clockwise, and the southern part will go eastbound

Even if itís an imaginable model, through the rock plate of high temperature and high pressure,

why on earth from the Pacific side...

We can leave the technical aspects of it till later.

How long will it take things to become like this? Two years? Two and a half?

This model is 302 seconds.

That translates into 312.54 days. 10 months from now

10 months?

1 month.

Will you give us at least three weeksí postponement?

Iíve already talked to some people in business and industry secretly,

but two weeks are too short for them to make a decision.

The world response to this situation will be total chaos when we announce it.

No matter how we do this, we canít avoid confusion.

Or rather, as Iíve said time and time again,

if itís leaked to foreign countries, itíll be even worse.

For Korea, Taiwan, and China , the early notification is...

No. Korea especially is going to suffer some big damage, so...

in the light of international understanding, within these few weeks,

I'll give a presentation for both the domestic and foreign press two days from now.

At 8am, we'll invite the newspapers, communication agencies, and TV and explain the situation

and ask them for cooperation of news censorship and keeping public reaction under control.

The Prime Minister and I will both be there.

From 10am there will be a meeting with leaders of the opposition at the chairman's official residence.

The Prime Minister will be there too.

From 12 noon there will be a lunch meeting with executives from financial and industrial circles.

What I will inform you of is

that during this time you will have a free hand

but that doesn't mean you can do whatever you want.

At the time of the conference, we'll announce the Emergency.

Evacuating 110 million people from the land of Japan

is far from simple.

Building up tentative shelters for the refugees abroad,

while domestically converting freight ships and tankers into transport vessels.

Making the port facilities bigger and better. Upgrading the runways of existing airports.

We have to build more airports.

In order to do that, every sheet of galvanized iron, nail, and drop of oil

will be accounted for by the government, which I'd like to you to oversee.

Itís much earlier than Iíd expected. I'll leave it up to you.

I thought Iíd only be there for a few days...

But for ten months?

You've heard everything now. In two weeks, the government will make the announcement.

What should I do from this point on?

No. I guess I'm already done with what I have to do.

These headquarters, I think, will be a sub-organization under the Committee of Evacuation.

Of course, with you.

I'm not a public servant.

Though I've had ties of friendship with you,

I'm the one who left a private company without any permission, and also piloted a sub part-time.

For my part,

I think I've paid back anything I owe to Japan.

In fact I've put in so much service that I've earned a bonus.

Bonus?

I'm going to get married.

What?

I'm planning to get married and then run away abroad.

Sounds nice, doesn't it?

I see. Congratulations.

Well, Mr Onodera. I'd really like to wish you luck.

But I'm going to miss you.

I'll give a farewell party for you with Nakata, Kunie, Kataoka and a few others.

By the way, where's Dr Tadokoro?

No idea.

I think old Watari would know about that.

So how old is this woman you're going to marry?

26 or 27...no, maybe older.

I like letting myself drift down into the sea

when I'm scuba diving.

The vast and deep sea...

enveloped in the cold water,

feeling sad,

lonely,

and close to shedding tears.

But strangely, I feel calm and happy.

Thereís nobody else but you I could find who would be suitable for me to marry.

I've been searching and searching...

I don't give a damn about these lands and mountains.

Take all your money out of your account and change it into foreign currencies and jewels.

And as for the plane tickets, by whatever airlines, tomorrow,

just buy the earliest possible ones. OK?

That's to Geneva, Switzerland. Right?

I don't know yet whether I love you or not.

I also don't know what marriage is like. You know, I've never been married,

but somehow, I feel I could get along with you.

I guess that's what it's all about.

I have to tell you, Iím relieved.

They've been warned that Mt Fuji is dangerous.

We'll have to get them down by force, if they won't agree.

From Nakata and Yukinaga.

It's much too scary for them to come down from the mountain.

Sorry?

According to hearsay,

Tokyo and Shonan may sink down to the ocean floor.

There may be some big earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

We can't help but escape abroad, at least for the time being

Hanae.

It's unusual today.

It looks beautiful.

THE GEODESY SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Within these last several months, surveillance satellites

have been gathering the results of the survey by the observation ship

around the arch shaped islands on parts of the continental shelf in the Far East.

The possibility has been increasing that a huge diastrophism may take place

as never before experienced in human existence.

JAPANíS DAY OF EXTINCTION IMMINENT!

JAPAN: THE NEW ATLANTIS OF ASIA?

The announcement is...

I had to bring it forward two days earlier than planned.

GIGANTIC MOVEMENT OF EARTHíS CRUST UNDER JAPAN

ISLAND TRAGEDY UNPRECEDENTED IN HUMAN HISTORY Extraordinary change in convection current of mantle.

IS JAPAN GOING TO SINK?

JAPAN LIKELY TO BE SUBMERGED WITHIN A YEAR Geodesy Society Makes News Public

As the leader of the Japanese government,

I must inform you

that we are now facing an unprecedented crisis.

As most of you know through the foreign press this morning,

in the near future

a major movement of the Earthís crust will occur around the islands of Japan,

and Japan itself will suffer

a scale of destruction we have never before witnessed,

as posited by research undertaken by scientists and government institutes.

The flight leaves Haneda at 5:30 pm, right?

Yes, a Swiss Air flight via Moscow. We cut it pretty close.

Thatís a relief.

Right now Prime Minister Yamamoto is announcing at the press conference

that as part of emergency measures, all individuals are prohibited from going abroad as from tomorrow.

You don't look too happy about it.

Yeah, it's just strange.

Up till now all I had to do was say goodbye and be done with it.

But since yesterday... it just doesn't feel right.

Because it's not the way you are.

Those who have a chance to escape by themselves

have to get out of Japan. It's the best thing for Japan herself.

But you're going to stick around?

And Kunie and Kataoka.

We can look after ourselves, I think.

We're too old to get about

as sure-footedly as you,

but we're not going to just pass away with Japan in some sentimental tragedy.

Besides, D2 is a workable plan.

More than a few Japanese will come through this alive.

Well then. I hope I'll see you someday, somewhere...

Keep in touch with me. Here's my address in Switzerland.

One more thing...

I'd like you to look out for Yuki, the Wadatsumi captain, in the Sea of Japan.

Goodbye then.

This is Fuji Observatory.

The eruption began around the eighth stage at 1:27.

We might see the smoke from up on the roof.

Hello?...Mr Onodera, you're wanted on the phone.

Hello. Speaking.

Where are you now?

What?

Are you on the Mayuzuro highway just out of Odawara?

Hi! I'm getting out today!

I was back in Shimoda yesterday.

Yes.

Hello? Hello?

I left Shimoda at 7 in the morning.

I'm here now -

What? Speak louder!

Pardon?

It's almost grey outside.

Onodera?

You have a ticket, don't you?

I didn't have time.

After you...

I'm sure Iíll meet up with you.

Go ahead, I'll catch up, it's okay.

Really!

This can't be happeningÖ!

Get to Odawara, even if you have to walk or crawl there!

Geneva...in Geneva...!

Onodera!

Onodera!

UN SPECIAL COMMITTEE FOR JAPAN CRISIS

Until now, Japan

has been solely in negotiation, and as a result

7.8 million people have admission to 21 countries,

not including a further 600,00 emigrants.

There are no more than 8.4 million people who have destinations planned.

101.6 million Japanese people don't know where they're going yet.

When the crust moves we may be in serious trouble.

The temporary evacuation shelters abroad

have to be decided first, I think.

Refugee camps

will impact heavily on the receiving countries, if it takes a long time.

Antipathy from the indigenous population,

the camps becoming slums,

breeding grounds for disease, and a hotbed of conflict and crime.

That's what these temporary shelters will turn into.

Mr Tukan from Jordan

can tell us about the present Palestinian refugees.

There are 700,000 Palestinian refugees.

which is about 35% of our population.

We have a lot of different difficulties

but the number of people we have to deal with now is...

157 times more than that, 110 million people.

Movement of people on such a scale, it's almost...

TOKYO HARBOUR

OSAKA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Finished wiring to ABCRT.

How much longer will it take?

One hour...fifty minutes, maybe.

We've got to hurry up.

It's the area from the Sea of Enshu to Ise Gulf, Sendai Gulf, and offshore Sanriku that I'm worried about.

The UN committee has convened 15 times and deliberated over nearly 2 months.

Only 2.8 million people have secured their destination of evacuation.

I donít understand it, and I wonder what the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister are doing.

If a people should lose their land,

if they should lose their own country,

their right to go to live in another country

isn't assured by anyone for now.

That's the way things are with the U.N. No, with the world.

It's an essentially different matter this time.

Pacific, Atlantic...any place will do.

What if there were some other nation with a population of 100,000, and it was going to sink into the sea?

Japan would accept 5000 or 10,000.

And the problem would soon be settled.

The problem itself is in the number, 110 million.

Humans! You! The number of humans!

The other day, I heard a story from a zoologist.

Until 65 million years ago, dinosaurs were the kings of the Earth.

The reason for their fall is a lack of adaptive radiation.

In other words, by dominating other species

and making conditions suitable only for themselves,

they created an abnormal propagation.

Prime Minister,

are you saying that humankind will have to face extinction?

Mr Watari,

I believe the three scholars who came up with the D2 project are great men.

"You had better not do anything"

Giving it so much thought allowed Plans 1 to 3 to develop.

Because I thought, too, humankind would pass away...

the revival of humans...

No.

It was reasoned how humans would survive, I think.

Instead of leaving it to the UN, or branch offices, or a special envoy,

I think I'll go abroad myself.

I'll tell these countries that if accepting ten million people is impossible, then ten thousand will do.

If ten thousand is unacceptable, then one thousand will do.

If one thousand is impossible, then even one hundred will do.

The blood of dinosaurs was cold

but the blood of humans is warm.

There is no choice but for us to believe this.

I don't have any other options.

Sorry for interrupting.

There's an emergency call from Mr Nakata of D1.

Itís happening earlier, isn't it?

Yes, sir.

We're calculating it again for confirmation.

Sooner...itís sooner than we expected.

KII PENINSULA, SHIKOKU

What? Do you mean you're running short of observation aircraft?

No, we need another one, at any cost. One more!

Kataoka, let's go.

Yes, sir.

SOUTHEAST OF SHIKOKU

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT

In order to rescue the Japanese,

not only the US 7th Fleet, which has already been mobilized,

but also the whole Pacific Fleet is now heading for the Japanese islands in the West Pacific.

The Air Force 5th Division,

alongside the 7th and 23rd, have begun relief operations.

As a temporary evacuation area for Japanese refugees,

I will petition congress for setting up a facility for about 2 million refugees

in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, subject to their approval.

By decision of the Chinese Republic Military Committee,

China will mobilize its navy to Kyushu district and Okinawa.

Thank you.

As the ships of China are small and swift,

They are able to navigate any coastline and carry people to bigger transport ships offshore.

And in some cases they will be able to carry people in isolated areas directly to mainland China.

About a part of Kinki district...

and Chugoko district...we decided to change the rendezvous points.

As for Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures, due to the tsunami damage on the Seto Inland Sea coast,

we will change the rendezvous points to Maizuru and Tsuruga.

In eight hours, the Far East Fleet of the USSR,

will reach the ports of Maizuru and Tsuruga with a convoy of transport ships.

Those from Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi should assemble at Tottori airport off the Sea of Japan,

at Yonago airport, Matsue airport, and the newly built Hamada airport.

From the USSR, TU transport aircraft, from 7:00 the following morning,

will arrive at each of these airports, 60 in number respectively, 240 in all.

Yukinaga, they have a strategy, don't they?

Once the country starts to crumble, the whole world comes to help.

They haven't believed us until now.

That's the way things are.

We're now off the coast of Izumiotsu, and will be in Osaka soon.

Descend to 1000 feet.

Roger.

How is it? Do you have a clear view?

Yukinaga. We aren't at Osaka yet, are we?

This is Osaka.

8 million a month?

The actual number of people evacuated in May.

In any case, naval support has gathered from all over the world,

and thanks to the resolution of the UN, each country, by its own government and expense,

spared us 30% of their private airliners.

At this rate, the number of those escaping will reach ten million without fail.

It's as Prime Minister Yamamoto said.

What?

If only we can hold out another five or six months, by all these efforts...

But according to some experts there is an opinion that the energy has expended itself in one surge

and about this time it will recede.

SANRIKU COAST

TOHOKU DISTRICT

HOKKAIDO

KINKI DISTRICT

TANGO PENINSULA

AREA PRESENTLY UNAFFECTED

Wait. Wait. There's a warning!

Don't sail off! Hey! Turn back!

Don't you know that a tsunami is coming?

Shut up! You don't know!

Get in contact with the Kyoto prefecture HQ.

Boats are trying to cross the Sea of Japan into South or North Korea.

This is a warning from D1. Come about!

There is a possible tsunami from a seaquake; there is danger of a tsunami.

You, in the angler boat, come about!

Come about!

Come about, there is danger of a tsunami.

In addition to what I have repeated,

this act will be regarded as illegal entry and you will not be permitted to land.

Come about!

Come about, this is an order.

KYUSHU

OKINAWA

But there are still 76 million people in Japan.

No. The dead and missing number 13 million.

So in actuality 63 million still remain.

And because of the government's efforts to rescue them, and humanitarian concerns around the globe,

the timing of the order to stop the operation is very problematical.

This timing, which seems to be the last chance for everyone,

is something I'd like your opinion on, Doctor.

Well, there is a very strange thing.

What we want to know about is this centrally located diastrophism.

When there is some land movement in Japan, the place that will split or slide first is here, isn't it?

As of now, enough force has already accumulated,

and in fact three times more energy required to cause a major shift

has already occurred,

but still this won't move at all.

In the behaviour of the Earth

there are still many aberrant patterns we can't understand.

But if the situation arises where this does move

then any remaining areas of the Japanese islands will be destroyed once and for all.

So, at the same time of the movement of this diastrophism

the order to stop the evacuation and rescue operation will be given, won't it?

Stop.

By actual time,

there are another 11 days and 7 hours left.

Kumie?

Yes.

Give this message to the Prime Minister by way of Mimura.

The Imperial Family should leave for Switzerland immediately.

Government agencies should evacuate to Yap Island in Micronesia.

But what will you do with the members of the committee...?

I'll give you the details after we get there.

I'll stay here until I find one last person that needs saving.

There is someone I must search for at any costs.

I can't leave Japan until I find them.

Members of D1. This is Yamamoto.

At 1:30 pm today

I ordered the Self Defence forces to stop the rescue operation.

By this act, D Plan has come to an end.

You've done well throughout all of this.

No smoke, no clouds

Has Japan gone yet?

It's impossible to see it all from here.

I wonder what happened to Dr Tadokoro.

And Onodera.

Well, Mr Watari.

Yes.

Take care, Prime Minister.

Please look after my niece.

Hanae,

in some country, find a Japanese...

No, find anybody in any country...

get married and live a good life together,

and have a healthy, happy baby.

The pilot says he canít wait much longer.

Mr Tadokoro.

It's Mr Tadokoro!

We're in danger here now, let's go.

I'm going to stay here with Japan.

What? You're what?

Thanks to your help tens of millions of people have been rescued.

I wonder whether that was all for the best.

Mr Tadokoro!

Prime Minister,

The Japanese are young as a people.

They have been brought up comfortably on these four islands, and are still in their infancy.

Whenever they would leave those islands and get into a scrape or suffer some wrongdoing,

they could always escape back here

and sit as still as a baby in its mother's arms.

But from now on they won't have any place to come back to, no-one to depend on,

and theyíll be left among other hardened or dishonest people in the world.

Prime Minister, I'll leave the Japanese people to you.

Mr Tadokoro.

I believe in the Japanese people.

Good luck, Prime Minister.

Yes.

I...I have loved Japan.

I want to believe

in the Japanese people forever.

Mr Tadokoro.

Well then.

SOMEWHERE ON EARTH

Subtitles and translation by Shane Burridge and Yoshinori Omoto