The year is 2037, the planet edges toward chaos. Extreme weather, drought, food scarcity, the accelerating pace of climate change, and diminishing resources take its toll. A young Japanese pacifist engineering genius Shinnosuke Kato realizes a prosperous future for his nation - to provide fresh water, and help feed a starving world, but he also prepares for the darkness of a boyhood prophecy. A rising China must crush Japan's drive for a global gold-backed currency to replace the falling American dollar. An attack on the Japanese imperial motorcade invokes an ancient directive, ignites a civil war as the head of the disgraced imperial guard seals off Tokyo, and plunges into ceaseless reprisal. Betrayed, and holdout in the central mountains of Japan, with the help of a DNA computer, Shinnosuke Kato is forced to lead a renegade army, navy, and suicide cult, to face the full force of a Chinese invasion

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