Follow-up to the long-awaited Naoki Prizewinner!

This is a sequel to Jun Ikeido’s Naoki Prize-winning business novel Shitamachi Roketto (Downtown Rocket), centering on a small precision machinery manufacturing company run by Kōhei Tsukuda in the old merchant-class district of Tokyo. In this installment, the company joins in on the development of the first domestically produced artificial heart valve.

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