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BotColony:

A novel set in the present

and near future

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(ii) Epitaph July 31, 1945

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his rare photograph made it to Japan ater a long and perilous journey. It captures the last moments o the heroic Colonel Saito, who gave his lie or Japan and the Emperor.Colonel Saito and his valiant soldiers were engaged in a lie and death struggle against the American invaders. Colonel

Saito’s aide, Lt. Kobayashi, captured on ilm both Col. Saitoand the approaching b-29 bomber. he bomb launched rom that murderous aircrat killed both Col. Saito and Lt.Kobayashi.

Miraculously, the ilm has remained intact in the shattered akachiho Kogaku Kogyo Olympus Six camera carried by Lt.Kobayashi. Sergeant anaka recovered the camera rom Lt.Kobayashi’s charred hands, and made a valiant attempt toreach Japan in a isherman’s boat. Fateully, he was rescued starved and dehydrated by a Japanese ship escaping the bombers’ carnage.



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Col. Saito, acing an enemy b-29 bomber with onlyhis Katana, should inspire the entire nation o Japan. he

Americans may have the bombs, but we have the determination

and the patience to succeed against all odds, and though the ight may be very long, we will prevail.

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maicho shinbun, march 14, 2010

Nakagawa Corporation today announced the receipt o a$500,000,000 purchase order rom China’s Ministry o

Electronics. Te order is or a special version o Nakagawa’sindustrial robots, adapted to the needle trade industry. Finished textiles are one o the largest Chinese exports and it was critical or China to maintain market leadership in this segment. Te entry o competitors with lower cost structures, such as Cambodia,Vietnam, Bangladesh and India threatened China’s dominance o the sector, according to a senior Chinese government ocial who cannot be named.

Te ocial has said he expects the large capital investment in robots to be recouped within the year. While the massive introduction o robots is expected to result in job losses, the ocial expects the displaced workers will nd work in qualityassurance while others will retrain or sectors experiencing shortages, such as ood production and inormation technology.

“Tis order is the largest in Nakagawa’s history, and we are very honored to have been chosen,” said Mr. Saito, the President and ceo o Nakagawa. “We rst established a

privileged business relationship with China when it acquired our mining robots. Perecting robots or the needle trade market will require improvements to their vision, motor skills and planning abilities. We are making large r& d investments to provide a superior solution to our Chinese customers and toconsolidate our position in the high-end robot market.”



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maicho shinbun, june 16, 2008

Naagawa Crpra leases slad f Agrhafr cnmi fr 99 ears.

Nakagawa Corp has leased the island o Agrihan in the Marianas or 99 years. Te amount o the transaction is condential. Tisacquisition is seen as a deensive move by the highly successul corporation, to guarantee its ability to sustain its breakneckexpansion as it runs out o space in Japan.

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Naagawa Crpra ves s fales Agrha

Nakagawa Corporation announced today the relocation o itsr& d and robot manuacturing acilities to the island o Agrihanin the Marianas.

Most o the island, inormally known as Bot Colony, isalready operated by robots. Nakagawa robots are trained invarious acilities on Agrihan beore deployment to jobs in hostile

environments on Earth and Mars Agrihan will provide a secure base or Nakagawa to

operate rom. Sources close to Nakagawa acknowledge that the decision to move was accelerated by the industrial espionage incident reported on October 30 on the ront page o the MaichoShinbun. Te surveillance equipment located near Nakagawa’sr& d acility in Hachiōji was o North Korean origin, and the kht Corporation, Nakagawa’s global competitor in the

robotics eld, is the prime suspect.



Part I:

Mission



Map of Agrihan (2020)

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tokyo—Death rom too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word or it—karoshi.

Tere is a national karoshi hotline, a karoshi sel-help book and a law that unnels money to the widow and children o a salary-man (it’s almost always a man) who works himsel into an earlykaroshi or the good o his company.

A local Japanese government agency ruled June 30 or the widow and children o a 45-year-old oyota chie engineer who died in 2006.

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hours o overtime a month—in the six months beore he died inhis bed o heart ailure.

Te cause o death was too much work, according to a ruling by the Labor Bureau o Aichi preecture, where oyota has itsheadquarters.

Te engineer’s daughter ound his body on Jan. 2, 2006, the daybeore he was supposed to fy yet again to the United States or more work on the Camry launch, said Mikio Mizuno, an at-torney or his wie.

Te ruling by the labor bureau will allow the engineer’s amilyto receive work insurance benets, Mizuno said. Te amily hasrequested that the man’s name not be released.

For decades, the Japanese government has been trying, and large-ly ailing, to set limits on work and on overtime. Te problem o karoshi became prevalent enough to warrant its own word inthe boom years o the late 1970s, as the number o Japanese menworking more than 60 hours a week soared.

Tirty years later, overtime rules remain so nebulous and soweakly enorced that the United Nations’ International Labor Organization has described Japan as a country with no legal limits on the practice.

Te consequences show up not only in claims or death and dis-ability rom overwork but in suicides attributed to “ atigue rom work.” Among 2,207 work-related suicides in 2007, the

most common reason (672 suicides) was overwork, according to government gures released in June.

wice in the past year, oyota—the world’s largest carmaker and a much-admired company in Japan—has been publicly em-barrassed by the deaths o employees who worked what Japanese authorities have judged to be killingly long hours.

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