“Kaimin” (Sea of Darkness) - Paperback Sixteen Short Stories Related to the Pacific War Published by Kodansha (August 1981, First Edition) Price: 950 yen ◎ There is yellowing, staining, and soiling due to aging. 　It is considered to be in fairly good condition considering the number of years passed. ◎ The obi (paper band) has a tear in one part (see photo). 〈Contents〉 Sea Battle / Ship / Bones / Flesh / Adultery / Bath / Man At P-Island / Commander / Soldier / Clouds, or Love Jap / Jogging / Cemetery Overlooking the Sea Pacific Ocean Story / Boat 16 Works In the endlessly vast islands of the Pacific Ocean, there was a war between Japan and the United States. The fierce battles in the long, extreme jungles and isolated islands drove soldiers and military personnel to "gyokusai" (honorable death) and starvation one after another. The sea war in the Pacific eventually turned into an air war, bombing Japan. It became a war of earth that burned the ground. The sea of the battlefield where the corpses of all the war dead, including the heroes of the battlefield and those of colonial origin who were mobilized as imperial subjects, sleep. The Pacific Ocean told the author countless stories of "drifters" intertwined like ropes. Sixteen short stories that follow the inseparable shadow of war for ordinary people living after the war.