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In the 2 million years of human history, the human race set out on the path of civilization some 10,000 years ago. Now it is facing a variety of problems for the first time in its history, and this trend is increasing rapidly recently. Why is this happening? The problems are all caused by increased global population. While the earth has a limit, the population is booming explosively, causing endless desires of people, expansion of industrial production, mass automobile production, excessive speculative investing, limitless study tasks, disturbed human minds, economical competition, armament competition, ceaseless nationalism, and fights over resources. All these events appear to have no end, and humans will continue to expand their activities explosively as if the earth could grow larger to accommodate such activities. This would soon let humans reach the limit of the tolerable range of the ecology of the earth. Why is this crisis happening at all? How can we climb out of it? This book gives you the reason and the solution. All phenomena occurring in the human society are, as a matter of course, caused because humans exist. Without humans, nothing would occur. This means that, in our modern complicated society, all problems are interconnected like tangled threads without proper order. Once we give proper consideration to the existence of humans since their beginning, and following orders systematically, everything will become perfectly recognizable. You will clearly understand how the earth and humans are deeply interrelated as if you have unraveled a tangled thread.

This is a story based on historical facts. During World War I, there was a prisoner-of-war camp in western Japan called Bando. It was the only POW camp in the world where the captors and captives, as well as the residents in surrounding areas, developed friendships. A German POW named Klaus Berger, who belonged to the music troupe, discovered the significant role music plays in times of conflicts. A few decades later, the Nazi regime took advantage of music in the most horrific way, making it one of the saddest uses of music in the history of mankind. Klaus volunteers to go to Auschwitz in an attempt to save Hannah, a Jewish violinist placed in the camp orchestra. One violin has been through both wars to witness the joyous, and then the tragic, history where music was involved. Present day in Japan, the violin now belongs to Asuka, who knows only peaceful times. She learned the history of the violin, and despite of the tremendous sadness she felt, little by little she begins to think about what she wants to do with her future. The book was published in Japan and has been translated into Vietnamese. It is a masterpiece of the 21st century that has made impressions on readers both young and old. It was selected as one of the assigned books for the 2014 National Book Report Contest for high school students. It was also the 2016 winner of Sakura Medal in Japanese Middle School & High School Books division, voted by the students from international schools across Japan, as one of their favorite books.