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Japanese title: エッセイ・随筆 日本エッセイ・随筆 代体 / 山田宗樹
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Item number: BO1912741
Released date: 30 May 2016
Maker: KADOKAWA

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Four years have passed since Nihon Bungaku
Essays and Essays
/ 『 Hyakunen Ho 』 (the 66 th Mystery Writers of Japan Award) was awarded. This is an entertainment masterpiece that must be read all at once, making it a shocking work to question modern society. Ask everyone living in the modern age when artificial intelligence is being realized "Are you really you?" In the near future, Japan has developed a technology to take out and transfer people's consciousness. There, it has become a business to temporarily transfer the consciousness of a person who has suffered a serious illness or injury to a "vessel" called a "substitute body" so that it does not interfere with daily life. Hatta, who works for Takasaki Medical Co., Ltd., a major substitute body manufacturer, sells the latest substitute body to medical institutions. To medical institutions. Today, he is also visiting hospitals for sales. In the midst of this, the patient he was in charge of (using the substitute body) goes missing and is found in a lifeless manner. The big mystery and dirty "substitute body" that remains. From there, the police, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Home Affairs, medical manufacturers, researchers. and a massive conspiracy involving the interests and bad intentions of patients and doctors. Where is consciousness? Is the body really yours? What is consciousness in the first place? In a world where science and greed surpass ethics, a grand battle between men and women in conflict begins!