A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.
An accident during tests of an anti-plasma artificial magnetic shield at Japan's Ground Self Defense Force East Fuji practice range sends the 3rd Special Experimental Company, under Colonel Matoba on a time-slip 460 years into the past, into 'the Age of civil War'. At the same time an imaginary-number anomaly thought to be caused by interference from the past begins eroding the present.
Codename: Seabat. The most dangerous submarine ever created. Explosively nuclear and manned by a crew that is officially dead, the Seabat is the most closely guarded military secret in the world. And it has just gone rogue.
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.
Nei pressi del monte Fuji si schianta un disco volante che sprigiona una strana radiazione verde con il potere di fare resuscitare i morti in zombi. Nella zona diverse persone vengono a contatto con il fenomeno, i primi sono una squadra di militari che vedono resuscitare un cadavere di una donna suicida, poco distante un gruppo yakuza deve vedersela con un uomo giustiziato da una pallottola in testa che non ha nessuna intenzione di crepare, in un piccolo albergo nella foresta un tizio tenta di occultare il corpo dell'amante appena deceduta ma ignora che di li a poco tornerà trasformata in famelica zombi.
Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura).
The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.
Interviews about Japan's deployment of Self-Defense Forces in Iraq collected from Middle Eastern intellectuals, cultural figures, and Palestinians living in refugee camps in March 2004.