“Expansion… or colonization, if that’s how you want to call it. It starts with lofty ideals that flutter in the sky, and ends in a bitter reality that words can’t even describe. That was the beginning of this process. Japan began to invade Asia, occupying one city after another: from Malaysia to Singapore, from Hong Kong to the Philippines. Of course, like any occupation, it starts with gaining the hearts of the people in those countries. Japan tried to win over the leaders of these Asian nations, sometimes by promising them “peaceful prosperity in Asia,” and sometimes by threatening them with Japan’s overwhelming military power. And here comes the question that has been asked over the centuries: What is the meaning of betrayal? And here comes Mizoaki, a young man who strives hard to make ends meet and achieve his own goals. But things don’t go as he expects.”Ships, when life surprises them with events that completely change their course, find themselves in new circumstances they have no idea how or why they came to be in such a situation. They lose the sense of their ambitions and their vision for the future. They see the world in a way they have never seen it before.