Japan stands as a brilliant Asian model of success. But how would this country cope if it faced a large-scale sanitary crisis? What would happen if, in Shinjuku—one of Tokyo's largest districts—a man were to bleed out in the street in broad daylight? How would the political and sanitary authorities handle the drama? Please take as much time as you can to ponder this question, because for Professors Onodera and Sekiguchi, it is already too late! An emergent virus has begun to insinuate itself into the arteries of the Japanese capital.