Battle Royale
Author Koushun Takami
Translator Yuji Oniki
Country Japan
Language Japanese
Genre(s) Dystopian novel
Publisher Ohta Publishing
Publication date April 1999
Published in
English February 2003
Media type print (paperback)
Pages 616
Battle-Royale-1.jpg_Japanese novel written by Koushun Takami.
Battle Royale (バトル?ロワイアル, Batoru Rowaiaru?) is a 1999 Japanese novel written by Koushun Takami.
The novel has been adapted into a film and a manga series (both of which have received sequels), and translated into English, French, German, Italian and Hungarian.
Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline—Japan is a national socialist state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国 Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku). Under the guise of a "study trip," a group of students from Shiroiwa Junior High School (城岩中学校 Shiroiwa Chūgakkō) in the fictional town of Shiroiwa (Kagawa Prefecture) are sleep-gassed on a bus. They awaken in the Okishima Island School on Okishima, an isolated, evacuated island southwest of Shodoshima, also in Kagawa Prefecture. They learn that they have been placed in an event called The Program. Officially a military research project, The Program is a means of terrorizing the population, of creating such paranoia as to make organized insurgency impossible. According to the rules, every year since 1947, fifty 3rd year junior high school (14-15 years old) classes are isolated, and each class is required to fight to the death until one student remains. Their movements are restricted by metal collars, later identified as Model Guadalcanal No. 22, around their necks which contain tracking and listening devices; if any student should attempt to escape The Program, or enter declared "danger zones", a bomb will be detonated in the collar, killing the wearer. If no student dies in any 24 hour period, all collars will be detonated simultaneously.
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