Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes
Sakyo Komatsu
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· 8 ratings · 196 pages · Published: 27 Mar 1973
The Japanese weather service sends a vessel to investigate. They find convincing evidence of a horrifying geological change.
Thrust into existence millions of years ago when a strong shift in the underlying plates tore it away from the Asian mainland, the Japanese Archipelago has been moving inexorably toward an unseen force in the Japan Trench, and is set on a collision course that threatens to pull the economic superpower under--literally.
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