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Three Realms Memorial PagodaAuthor: Hisao Jūran
| Original Title | 三界万霊塔 |
|---|---|
| Author | 久生 十蘭 |
| Genre | Popular Fiction |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In the twilight of his power, Fukao Kozo—a steel-nerved industrialist whose empire was forged through ruthless ambition—finds himself haunted by shadows from his past. Once driven by desperate hunger for success, Fukao and his comrade Toda Gohei built their fortunes on Australia's treacherous pearl beds, where ambition blurred into brutality. Decades later, as postwar Japan grapples with accountability, whispers emerge: survivors of their old exploits resurface, threatening to expose buried crimes. Toda arrives at Fukao’s estate, frayed and fearful, clutching a mortuary tag sewn into his suit—a stark symbol of their mortality. Their uneasy reunion unravels memories of seabed memorials erected to mock the dead, divers’ spines shattered by chisels, and a journalist’s damning article that could unravel everything. When a foreign stranger appears with cryptic connections to Fukao’s darkest deeds, the tycoon’s carefully constructed world teeters on collapse. Greed, guilt, and ghosts converge in this atmospheric tale of corroded legacies, where the ocean’s depths hide more than pearls—they guard secrets that refuse to stay buried. |
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