I. Prologue -- The Gods Left First -- Sources and Method -- II. The Siberian Internment in History -- The Prince's Tale -- The Soviet-Japanese War -- Hot War to Cold -- The Soviet-Japanese Conflict : Prehistory into History -- Toward Internment -- The Internment Remembered -- III. Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag -- Icons of the Profane -- The Red Corpse -- "My Vision Broadened Tenfold" -- The "Siberia Style" -- From Image to Text -- The Responsibility of the Artist -- "The Beauty only I Can Grasp" -- IV. Knowledge Painfully Acquired : Takasugi Ichirō and the "Democratic Movement" in Siberia -- Thank You, Iosif Vissarionovich! -- A Humanist Interprets the Gulag -- Siberia, School of Democracy -- Ogawa Gorō Becomes Takasugi Ichirō -- In the Shadow of the Northern Lights -- The Gate of Hell -- Toward Epiphany -- Toward Return -- Knowledge Painfully Acquired -- V. Ishihara Yoshirō : "My Best Self Did Not Return" -- Prologue: Ishihara Yoshirō and Viktor Frankl -- The Survivor's Question -- The Primitive Accumulation of Memory -- The Life before the Death -- Into the Gulag -- At Lowest Ebb, Stirrings -- Kano Buichi, Enigma -- Was this Domoi? -- VI. Coda -- The People Stalin Didn't Care About -- "A War to Live" : Fujiwara Tei's The Shooting Stars Are Alive -- The Meaning and Message of Survival -- Appendix: How Many?