The Place Promised in Our Early Days 2004 The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided Hokkaido is ruled by the Union while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo In the summer of 1996, three middle school students make a promise that theyll cross the border with a self constructed plane and unravel the towers secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up