"Hot Ashes" is a political detective story chronicling the secret race to create nuclear weapons. The author is one of the first in journalism to say that in addition to France, England, Germany, and the United States, Japan also tried to create its own atomic bomb during the Second World War, which later suffered the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This publication also includes the story “Man and the Dragon,” dedicated to the fight against the water element and the story "The Birth of a Pearl", which tells how the Japanese revealed the secret of the birth of pearls and turned oysters into pets. "Plum Blossoms" is a story about the contrast in the culinary traditions of the Chinese and Japanese, reflecting the national mentality of these neighboring peoples and their relationship to nature.