War Criminal : The Life and Death of Hirota Koki written by Shiroyama Saburo
ISBN-10: 0870112759
ISBN-13: 978-0870112751
Hirota Koki was a Japanese diplomat and the 32nd Prime Minister. He is written as a politician who tried to prevent Japan from the World War 2. Hirota I used images of Atlas, the Titan god of endurance and astronomy, as a metaphor of him. The hourglass means that he seems to become rushed.
It took for about seven hours to finish.