CONTENTPage Poem: Ruptured Tear: English version Poem: Ruptured Tear: Chinese versionI-III Authors Preface1 Chapter 1: 2004, Nagasaki, Japan: Unzen National Park12 Chapter 2: 2004 Nanjing, China: The Burning Song18 Chapter 3: 2004 Nanjing, The Sunflower Institute 34 Chapter 4: 2004 Nanjing, Inspector Wu Feng46 Chapter 5: 2004 Nagasaki, Suma’s humiliation and Oota55 Chapter 6: 1937 Nanjing, Early July, Fuzimiao71 Chapter 7: 1937 Nanjing, December: A Sacrificial Lamb78 Chapter 8: 1937 Nanjing, Reality meets Denial90 Chapter 9: 1937 Nanjing, Terror on the Wall98 Chapter 10: 1937: Ishi Gunjiro, The hours to Nanjing109 Chapter 11: 1937, Nanjing, The Boys Under Suma119 Chapter 12: 2004: Brothers in Yakuza 131 Chapter 13: 2004 Nanjing, A Meeting on Bilateral Crimes144 Chapter 14: 2004 Nanjing, Xiao Yu, and Zhang Wei Meet151 Chapter 15: 1937 Nanjing, Hell Creek160 Chapter 16: 2004 Nanjing, An Old Master 174 Chapter 17: 2004 Nagasaki, Gunjiro’s Decision186 Chapter 18: 2004: Confrontation on Hashimoto Island, 197 Chapter 19: 2004, Revelations at The Nanjing Memorial216 Chapter 20: 2004 Nanjing, Identifying a Psychopath229 Chapter 21. 2004 Nanjing, Shock, Reflection, Overconfidence 237 Chapter 22: 2004 Nanjing: Peizhi’s Discovery 249 Chapter 23:2004 Nanjing, Oota Hiro Creates Suspicion256 Chapter 24: 1948: Nagasaki: The Message266 Chapter 25: 2004 Nanjing, The Spirits of the Monastery280 Chapter 26: 2004 Nanjing, The Tower from Hell293 Chapter 27: 2004 Nanjing, Wen Xiao Yu’s Terror on the Wall306 Chapter 28: 2004 Nanjing, Oota’s Apotheosis at Unzen Hell312 List of Characters and reference List of Historical EventsThe tension in the thriller is a logical sequel to questions and psychological analysis of the terrifying animosities of psychopathological tendencies in Chinese-Japanese relations between both individuals and collectivities.The Ruptured Tear Behind the MaskWhen the soldier Ishi Gunjiro is confronted with the autocracies committed by officer Suma of the Japanese army in Nanjing in 1937, he decides to keep documents and photographs as proof of the man’s crimes. Amidst the murders and struggles, Gunjiro stumbles across a young boy who hides in the bushes along the shores of the Yangzi. He prevents the boy, Wen Ting, is discovered by the Japanese. After the war, it seems Suma has disappeared. More than 60 years later, in 2004, Suma turned up again, as he aimed to play a dominant political role in Japan by creating a new cult. Gunjiro and Wen Ting are the only persons who can identify him. An ice-cold and complex powerplay unravels again In Nanjing, but this time Wen Ting and Gunjiro fight the battle on the same side together.Mariska Stevens is an anthropologist and writer of thriller novels based on historical events actualized in the past. Her approach to history makes individual dilemmas and complex events resolved in motivated coincidences. Her work opts for the emancipation of the individual as a path to transparent and responsible knowledge beyond the limits of monocausal explanation.