The man who Yoshiya follows gets off at a station in the Chiba Prefecture and hails down a cab ; Yoshiya is able to get a cab to follow the man . The man gets out at a remote location full of walls and barbed wire and walks away ; Yoshiya follows him . After traveling through a scrap yard and several walls , they end up at a baseball field and the man vanishes . After surveying the field , he proceeds to dance , feeling as if he is being tested by God . During this dance , he thinks of several things : his mother and her life ; how he refused to marry his girlfriend in college because he said the son of God ca n't marry ; how before Mr. Tabata died a few years ago , he confessed that he lusts for Yoshiya 's mother despite being married and having children . In that moment , Yoshiya wanted to confess to Mr. Tabata that he has incestuous feelings for his mother , but decided to hold back out of respect for his guide . After he finishes dancing , he kneels on the pitcher 's mound and feels the wind dance around him and says aloud , " Oh God . " Satsuki , a thyroid doctor , travels to Bangkok for the World Thyroid Conference . On her flight , the PA asks if anyone is a doctor ; she thinks about reasons not to volunteer but ultimately does . After the conference concludes , she takes a week long excursion to a hotel in the mountains . She is picked up by a Mercedes limo by driver Nimit . She talks with Nimit about jazz and the quake ; they also talk about her former husband who left her because he said that she did not want to have children
quake
Great Hanshin earthquake
After the Quake