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Before the Meiji era, the production of sugar cane, the raw material for sugar, was very low in the Japanese territory. Sugar was traded at a high price and sweets made from sugar were a luxury that ordinary people could not afford to taste. The author, a descendant of the king of Ryukyu, explores the rich finances of the Satsuma Clan, which were created by sugar from the Amami-oshima Islands, and looks at the origins of the Meiji Restoration.

Suzuki shoten rose to become one of the world's leading trading companies in the Taisho era. Although the company went bankrupt in the early Showa era, but its DNA was inherited by Nissho Iwai (now Sojitz corporation), Kobe Steel, Teijin and Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (now IHI) ....... Novelist Saburo Shiroyama unmasks the evil image that was created. This is where the novelist's interviewing skills come into play.

Seicho Matsumoto, Japan's proud master of social mystery novels, depicts a governmental corruption over sugar import quotas. A spectacular corruption case unfolds at a time of rapid economic growth in Japan. How does it all end?