The Eternal Zero

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At the 60th Anniversary of the End of World War II, sibling journalists Kentaro and Keiko are given an opportunity to research the death of their estranged grandfather. Apparently he may have been a Kamikaze bomber, but there is much more to his story than just his death. He was a plane builder who did not create his machines for war but developed this engine for high altitude and long distance as a tribute to the sky and to ingenuity. His story is one of family, love and pacifism in the skies above the Pacific.

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On the surface, Naoki Hyakutas novel presents an intriguing mystery as two modern-day siblings try to uncover the character and circumstances of the death of their grandfather, who died as a kamikaze pilot The novel brings humanity to the often faceless enemy in the realistic characters of the old soldiers who approach their past experiences in different ways. World Literature Today

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Naoki Hyakuta is a veteran author and news writer. Born in 1956 in the southern Japanese city of Osaka, Hyakuta is a drop-out from Doshisha University. While still studying at Doshisha, he made his acting debut for the TV series "Love Attack". And upon entering the media industry, he would leave college to begin his writing career for the TV series "Detective- Night Scoop!", on which he would write for twenty-five years. He would turn his attention to prose in 2006. He would then come to pick up a Eiji Yoshikawa Award fo New Literature in 2009. In 2013, he was awarded the Japan Megane Award for Literature for Forever Zero