The Hata Enigma

A priest of a Japanese imperial shrine dies under mysterious circumstances.

The dead poem he wrote leads to a American professor William Sandwell who

claims his innocence is taken by the police for investigation. Carvings onto the body

and the disappearance of Japan's most important myth-surrounded relics, a

mythological mirror points into the direction of a brutal robbery.

Forced by the Kunaicho, Japan's most powerful government organization he starts a

search for the relic. Joining him in his adventure through Japan is a gifted half

Japanese, half English archaeologist, Catherine Yamazaki. Together, assisted by a

police officer of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police District they discover a trail of

evidence that starts in the Inner Sanctuary of the shrine. Finally the search leads to

the arrest of the thieves and the unveiling of Japan's best kept secret.