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Watanabe Yuichi sits behind bars in Japan's infamous Fukuoka Prison. After World War II, the former "soldier-guard" is now an incarcerated "low-level war criminal" under U.S. control. His written confession, which highlights two people—"one prisoner and one guard; one poet and one censor"—becomes a chronicle of "war's destruction of the human race." Still a teenager, Watanabe was assigned to investigate the gruesome murder of a fellow pri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More