ITÔ Jun'ichi et TAKAHASHI Makoto sont les  "reporters" du groupe Scion of Earth. Ils sont sur l'île de Miyakejima pour observer le phénomène céleste. Dans le campement qu'ils avaient installé à proximité du cratère, il y avait beacoup de matériel électronique, permettant d'analyser et de transmettre est quasi-simultané les images du phénomène. Leur matériel a été détruit.
TAKAHASHI Makoto, aux allures de 1er de la classe, est le fils d'un petit patron d'une boutique de photo et d'électronique. Il est sensé y travailler, ce qui donne une idée de l'endroit où il a récupéré son matériel.
ITÔ Jun'ichi, le chevelu, a terminé ses études et passé 6 mois aux Etats-Unis.

LIN-WEI Kumiko 26, petite, assez jolie, elle s'est faite l'avocate de la nature et de notre mère la Terre. Doté d'une forte personnalité, elle était connue pour répondre à toute opposition avec beaucoup d'hostilité. Elle a par exemple jamais hésité à utiliser sa bombe anti-aggression ou ses connaissances en aikido pour se défendre en cas d'aggression (ou ce qu' elle percevait comme une aggression).
Elle a déjà été en garde à vue et le PSIA conserve un dossier sur elle. Sa première arrestation a fait suite à la plainte de la Faculté de Médecine de Kyoto, pour avoir ravagé un des laboratoires avec un gang de cinq autres étudiants et avoir enlevé les sujets tests, des chimpanzés, qui n'ont jamais été retrouvés. Elle a été libéré pour un défaut de procédure, la Faculté n'avait pas fait toutes les déclarations nécessaires pour la possession de ces singes et les charges ont été abandonnées. Lin Wei a cependant été renvoyée de son école de journalisme peu de temps après. Elle a fait deux autres séjours au poste, suite au "bombages" d'hommes qui ont à chaque fois tenté de l'aggresser.
Kumiko a été enlevée dans son appartement par une demi-douzaine de gros bras et n'a pas été retrouvée. La SF0 pense que le Colonel Kato est impliqué d'une manière ou d'une autre.

Colonel Kawamura Hajime was a brilliant Japanese officer during the war. He was only 27 when he’s been transferred at the dreadfull Kempeitai, the Secret Police. He became the Kempeitai officer in the Fuchu prison, in the “Special Wing”. His duty was mainly to keep an eye on the political prisoners (mostly communists and members of religious movements that were refusing to revere the Emperor). Kawamura was also responsible for interrogations of terrorists.
He was very dedicated and was describing his job as sacred. Has a faithful servant of the Emperor he had to execute some of his prisoners, because of their crimes or their attitude in incarceration. In 1944 (Showa 19) he made the shocking discovery that the Guru of a minor but blasphemous cult of Ainu origins was conducting ceremony on the very ground of the prison. Kawamura took the weird priest Yamada Chikuyupi (Ainu name, Sahpo) in a special cell and begun to pressure him to abjure his foolish credo and embrace the luminous way of the Emperor and the Yamato. Disgusted by the resistance of the man, he finally brought him in deepest and darkest place of the prison’s underground factory and walled the man up behind a makeshift wall of rock.
It was only a month later that an unusual outbreak of smallpox spread throughout Fuchu Special Wing. Some escaped; most were afflicted. Curiously, Kawamura’s staff caught the disease, but he did not. Some died by disease, but most died by the hand of Colonel Kawamura. Unwilling to see his prison suffer needlessly, and believing the pox to be a curse from the man he condemned, Kawamura went around one night shooting the residents. Some fought him but none were able to escape his revolver or his sword. He let a few killing themselves but most died from the Colonel’s bullets. Kawamura didn't shoot his staff, though. He decapitated them with his sword, believing it the most respectful way he could send them to the heaven promised to the faithful warriors of the Emperor. Not long afterward, the Colonel wrote his last journal entry, crawled into the bolt-hole under his desk, and shot himself.
The Director of the prison discovered only a week afterward the tragedy : the Kempeitai had always been secretive and he knew better to mix with their activities. Still, he finally try to make contact with the Special Wing, only finding what looked at graves, the corpses of dogs that seemly driven crazy by hunger had ate off each other in a desperate attempt to survive. More disturbing, there were no hint of the Colonel Kawamura and some files in the archives were missing. The Kempeitai had no time to recover “its” wing: with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan collapsed and the penitentiary administration decided to just “forget” the wing and it’s bloody history.