Natsu Kuhaku Hana

[Machine Translation] It was the summer of 1945, the day after the war's end. While everyone was stunned, a man came to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. He said, "Now that everything is gone, we must revive the high school baseball tournament, which was lost during the war, for the sake of the young people who bear the future. No ball, no stadium. Still, I want to play baseball at Koshien again. For himself, for his friends who died in the war, and to show hope for the future of Japan. (The reporter, Kanzumi, who had been working with the impure motive of "for the company's and his own survival," was touched by the thoughts and prayers of the people and scrambled around the country, but what stood in his way was the firm rejection of high school baseball by GHQ, which showed no understanding....

1945年夏、敗戦翌日。誰もが呆然とする中、朝日新聞社に乗り込んできた男がいた。全てが無くなった今こそ、未来を担う若者の心のために、戦争で失われていた「高校野球大会」を復活させなければいけない、と言う。ボールもない、球場もない。それでも、もう一度甲子園で野球がしたい。己のために、戦争で亡くなった仲間のために、これからの日本に希望を見せるために。「会社と自分の生き残りのため」という不純な動機で動いていた記者の神住は、人々の想いと祈りに触れ、全国を奔走するが、そこに立ちふさがったのは、「高校野球」に理解を示さぬGHQの強固な拒絶だった...。