Sixty-four images of Otsushima, an island in Tokuyama Bay in the Seto Inland Sea that was the training site of the kaiten, the manned torpedo used in the last year of Japan's war effort. Having visited the island in his early twenties, Hitoshi Uemoto was confronted with the unimaginable realities faced by the young men enlisted in the Special Attack Forces of the Imperial military, in training and in the suicide missions that were their ultimate purpose. The book is a psychological portrait, an attempt to make sense of a reality far removed from the materialist era in which the photographer was born. The afterword is in Japanese and English.