Part II, The Kaiten Menace: Chapters 18 - 20 Summary

October 6, 1993

In Tokyo, Japan, three days after the explosion, Hideki Suma worships secretly at the Yasukuni shrine, previously a shrine dedicated to the lives of those who died in honor of fighting for the Emperor. By World War II, it had lost its religious significance and now stands for a cult and ethnic philosophy of Japanese superiority and dominance. Suma is the powerful man who intends to exert Japanese dominance over the entire world, targeting first the U.S. He is responsible for the nuclear weapons aboard the Divine Star. The situation is even grimmer as he also has two more ships already docked and offloading in the U.S., and two more in transport. The reader has to assume that there are nuclear weapons aboard all four ships bound for...