"I found myself in a field about a block away from the residences, surrounded by fires from all sides with a wind storm generated by them and smoke making visibility and breathing extremely difficult. It was getting hotter and hotter, and my thoughts were only on survival. Would I make it out of this man-made hell, or would the Lord take me, a nine-year-old? But the will to survive is strong, and as the temperatures around me and the wind velocity increased, I decided to bury myself in the ground to avoid exposure to the two elements..." Son of the Rising Sun shows the horrors of World War II witnessed by a growing boy. It tells us that we must not give up in times of hardship, but persevere to overcome adversity. This culminated in the Great Yokohama Raid of May 29, 1945, that demolished the Port of Yokohama and took away our beloved teenager, Constantine, to God's eternal kingdom.