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Blue sparks flash as electric streetcars rattle down bustling streets. Flesh and blood mannequin girls in department store windows beckon customers with their white painted faces and charming smiles. Men in suits and patent leather shoes walk beside women in kimonos and clicking getas.
In factories across the nation the latest modern appliances roll off assembly lines while in the countryside farmers live as they have four countless generations surrounded by the kami of their ancestors.
Externally, Japan is a modern, industrialized nation, yet underneath the surface lies a shadow world, as dangerous and unpredictable as the earthquakes and typhoons that wrack its shores. Ancient forces that have lain dormant beneath the Japanese islands for millennia are being drawn to the surface by men and women whose growing knowledge of the arcane arts and modern science have outpaced their native wisdom and restraint.
It is the dawn of a new age in the land of the rising sun, but will it be an era of light and prosperity or one of darkness and ruin?