Beyond the limits

Author: (Japanese) Hoshino Hideo
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book ranked first in the first round of voting at the 2004 Japan Bookstore Book Award Competition, but was second in the second round of voting. This novel is a masterpiece by Hoshino Hideo. Set against the backdrop of the Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash in Oyaegarayama, Gunma Prefecture, which shocked the world and resulted in 520 deaths, the story depicts how journalists, while reporting on the incident, encounter the twists of fate and experience the joys and sorrows of life. At the time, Hoshino Hideo was a reporter for the Gunma Prefecture newspaper "Ueima News" and personally covered the crash.