Shosetsu Hi No Tori Daichi Amiage

[Machine Translation] It is 1938 in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Midorio Makube, a young and ambitious Guandong military officer, is appointed as the leader of a research team to investigate a legendary "firebird" that lives in Loulan, a prosperous Silk Road trading area in Central Asia. The source of the funds is said to be his wife Rena's father, Yozo Mitamura, a general of a zaibatsu (financial conglomerate). The investigative team on their arduous journey includes Midorio's brother Masato, who sympathizes with communism; his friend Louis, who is actually in touch with the Shanghai mafia; Yoshiko Kawashima, a survivor of the Qing dynasty; and Maria, a mysterious woman from the West, all of whom have their own reputations. Dr. Saruta, who plans to use the power of the firebird as a weapon, also joins them. After much hard work, they arrive in Loulan, where they discover a startling revelation... Dr. Saruta, Locke, and Masato, who appear in the manga "Firebird" and many other works by Tezuka, and real-life characters such as Hideki Tojo, Kanji Ishihara, and Isoroku Yamamoto move the course of history!

一九三八年、日本占領下の上海。若く野心的な關東軍将校の間久部緑郎は、中央アジアのシルクロード交易で栄えた楼蘭に生息するという、伝説の「火の鳥」の調査隊長に任命される。資金源は、妻・麗奈の父で、財閥総帥の三田村要造だという。困難な旅路を行く調査隊は、緑郎の弟で共産主義に共鳴する正人、その友で実は上海マフィアと通じるルイ、清王朝の生き残りである川島芳子、西域出身の謎多きマリアと、全員いわく付き。そこに火の鳥の力を兵器に利用しようともくろむ猿田博士も加わる。苦労の末たどり着いた楼蘭で明らかになったのは、驚天動地の事実だった...。漫画『火の鳥』や手塚作品に数多く登場する猿田博士やロック、マサトたちと、東條英機、石原莞爾、山本五十六ら実在の人物たちが歴史を動かしていく!