Set in May 1997, in a fascist version of Japan known as the Republic of Greater East Asia, "Battle Royale" follows the fate of 42 junior high-school kids who have been forced the take part in The Program — a sadistic game created by the government that randomly picks a ninth-grade class, arms them with various weapons and forces them to fight it out till the death. The "winner" is the last one standing.
Battle Royale: Remastered, by Koushun Takami Newly translated by Nathan Collins.
haikasoru, Fiction.