Junichirou Watanabe 
Death in Akan Lake 

When the young writer, Tanabe, returned to his hometown, Sapporo, he saw the portrait and paintings of his first love, Tokitou Junko, again. Twenty years ago, Junko chose the most pitiful and beautiful way to commit suicide and fell in the ice and snow of Ahan Lake at the age of 18. Twenty years later, with his first love in mind, Tanabe is determined to explore the truth of Junko»s death. Why did she end her life in the most beautiful age? Who is the man she loves most? After visiting several people with close relationship to Junko one by one, Tanabe gradually restores the real feature of a girl under the glory of a talented painter…