Tokyo, 1947. In the third year of the Allied Occupation of Japan, Tatsunori Nakata, Metropolitan Police Inspector, former Imperial Navy officer, and war widower, is called in to solve the murder of a woman found in the city's Ueno Railway Station during a late night squatter roundup. In the process, Inspector Nakata encounters a beautiful investigative journalist, a mysterious Japanese bureaucrat, a powerful American businessman, local gangsters, black market operators, and other survivors of the Second World War. Despite the odds against him, Inspector Nakata navigates through official...