YOKOHAMA STATION HAS SWALLOWED 99% OF MAINLAND JAPAN Two hundred years ago, Yokohama Station, which had been under constant construction, developed the ability to self-propagate. Now with nearly all Honshu, the mainisland of Japan, consumed by the growing station, the population has been split into two groups: those who live inside the sprawl with fare cards embedded in their brains and the few who persist on the remaining scraps of untouched land. Hiroto has lived his whole life on the outside, but when an exile from the station entrusts him with a mission and a ticket, he ventures into the ominous belly of the beast for the first time...

A WORLD INSIDE ​All Hiroto has ever known is a life on a tiny coastal speck of Japan. Much of the country has been swallowed by Yokohama Station, a mysterious, ever-growing series of buildings that's been around for as long as anyone can remember. The few who live outside its many entrances have never seen Inside and know only rumors and legends of the station's interior. That all changes when Hiroto is given an 18 Ticket, a mysterious item that lets him enter the massive complex for five days. The young man has always sought a purpose, but the one he finds may not be the sort he'd hoped for...

TALES FROM INSIDE Welcome to Yokohama Station, a sprawling structure that has consumed most of Japan. This collection of short stories dives into more about the station and the people that live within and around it. An android’s chance encounter with a man on an island reveals the origin of the rebellious Dodger Alliance. Meanwhile, two other androids go missing, and a third is dispatched to locate them, but do they want to be found? In Kumamoto, a mysterious death grips JR operatives who work to keep Yokohama Station from spreading. Lastly, a volcano threatens to erupt in Gunma, displacing hundreds of Insiders. How will the station react to this unprecedented danger?

At last, Hiroto arrives at the distant Gate 42 that the professor told him about before his journey began. The person he meets there offers him a way to stop the station's functions if he wishes--but would that really be for the best...?

Hiroto has finally found Keiha Nijo, the leader of the Dodger Alliance, able to evade the station's automatic turnstiles by falsifying her location data. Will her story finally shed some light on the history of Yokohama Station's propagation?

The Rounds are humans with the sex organs of both genders. Artificially created to test the limits of the human body in space, they are now a minority, despised and hunted by the terrorist group Vessel of Life. Aboard Jupiter-I, a space station orbiting the gas giant that shares its name, the Rounds have created their own society with a radically different view of gender and of life itself. Security chief Shirosaki keeps the peace between the Rounds and the typically gendered “Monaurals,” but when a terrorist strike hits the station, the balance of power and tolerance is at risk...and an entire people is targeted for genocide. -- VIZ Media

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675