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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Battle Royale
(¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, 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, Russian, Norwegian, and Hungarian. Battle Royale takes
place in an alternate timeline-Japan is a fascist state, known as the
Republic of Greater East Asia (¿¿¿¿¿¿ Dai T¿a Ky¿wakoku). Under the
guise of a "study trip," a group of students from Shiroiwa Junior High
School (¿¿¿¿¿ Shiroiwa Ch¿gakk¿) 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.
