The rivalry of older seasoned reporters and younger ones, the inability to communicate with those at the site, or did they even reach the site? They’ll have to get to a payphone. All the action (as far as I read) took place in the office. Unfortunately this book was a DNF for me. Those who stay behind (almost all men) eat and sleep in the office for days, illustrating that stereotypical behavior we read of, that for Japanese men, their work is their life. “What do all these people do?”)Ĭontrolled chaos ensues as entire teams of reporters are sent out to the remote, almost inaccessible site in the days before cell phones. It’s a big operation – we are told the newspaper employs more than 500 people! (Tell that to the private equity buyout people who are acquiring major US newspapers and simply firing half the staff. It will be the most significant story in this newspaper’s history. Our reporter is put in charge of coordinating the reporting on the story. That tragedy remains the greatest number of people ever killed due to a single aircraft disaster anywhere in the world. In 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 (JAL 123) crashed into a mountain 60 miles north of Tokyo, killing 520 people. This story is based on true events that the author participated in as a young reporter for a regional Japanese newspaper. Other prominent works include his 2003 Kuraimazu hai (Climber's High), centering on the crash of JAL Flight 123 that he covered as a reporter in 1985 the World War II novel Deguchi no nai umi (Seas with No Exit, 2004) the police novel Shindo zero (Seismic Intensity Zero, 2005) and the story collection Rinjo (Initial Investigation, 2004). 1 ranking in 2013 with 64 Rokuyon (64), his first novel in seven years. 1 and gained him a place among Japan's best-selling authors. His 2002 novel Han'ochi (Half Solved) earned a Konomys No. In 2000 his story Doki (Motive) was awarded the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Short Stories. He made his literary debut in 1998 when his collection of police stories Kage no kisetsu (Season of Shadows) won the Matsumoto Seicho Prize the volume was also short-listed for the Naoki Prize. Hideo Yokoyama ( 横山 秀夫) worked as an investigative reporter with a regional newspaper north of Tokyo for 12 years before striking out on his own as a fiction writer.
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