362:. A meeting of government officials, including Prime Minister Yamamoto, focuses on assessing the disaster. Dr. Tadokoro warns that more eruptions and earthquakes are imminent, but his claims are rejected as alarmist. He later meets with a mysterious wealthy man named Mr. Watari, who agrees to fund the doctor's research expeditions. With this funding, he develops a course of action to address a nationwide earthquake disaster. During a meeting to secure a research submarine from France, the volcano
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refugees. Mr. Watari describes three options for Plan D2. One is the formation of a new country, a second is immigration and integration into other countries, and a third is a non-response that means passive acceptance of Japan's fate. Onodera, drunk and agonizing over the public's ignorance of the impending disaster, meets Abe Reiko for the first time since the Tokyo earthquake.
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Mr. Watari, on his deathbed, has a final meeting with Dr. Tadokoro and the Prime
Minister. The doctor states that he will remain in Japan until the end, and expresses his confidence in the Prime Minister's leadership ability with the Japanese people's uncertain future. A helicopter takes the Prime
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Dr. Tadokoro and his team meet with Mr. Watari at his secluded mountainside home. The doctor reveals his two-phase plan: D1-investigating seismic activity in the Japan Trench, and D2-an evacuation of the
Japanese islands. The Prime Minister is negotiating with countries to accept
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are refusing to participate. Shipping and air transport production are increased, and a full announcement of Japan’s fate is released to the public nationwide. Onodera plans to marry Reiko and meet her in Geneva, but they are separated when a new earthquake triggers an eruption of
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Minister, who lost his wife in the earthquake, works closely with Mr. Watari and Dr. Tadokoro's team. Their assessment is that another even larger earthquake is on the horizon.
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Japanese Meteorological Agency reveals devastating news; the original two-year timeline for Japan's sinking is inaccurate, shrinking to just 10 months. Immigration negotiations are sped up, though countries such as
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Onodera leaves his job as a submarine pilot to help Dr. Tadokoro full-time. Further research verifies that the
Japanese archipelago will be pulled into the ocean. This is immediately followed by a massive earthquake in
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summit discusses possible locations for Japan's population. In two months, 2.8 million
Japanese have successfully evacuated; the low number frustrates Prime Minister Yamamoto. Japan's sinking accelerates, with the
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agree to accept large numbers of refugees, but evacuation estimates only increase to eight million per month. The
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was released in Japan on 29 December 1973 where it was distributed by
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788:17 November
763:17 November
616:Ralph James
388:South Korea
345:Wadatsumi-1
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260:$ 3 million
244:143 minutes
179:Masaru Sato
87:Produced by
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