On Jan. 31 and Feb. 7 at 9 p.m., Nihon TV will present a two-part dramatization of Harutoshi Fukui's best-selling fantasy novel "Sengoku Jietai (Warring Nations Self-Defense Forces)," which was adapted as a big-budget movie last year.
Two groups of Ground Self-Defense Force troops comprising 26 soldiers are on their way to the foot of Mount Fuji for training exercises when they somehow fall into a time slip and find themselves on the edge of Lake Biwa 400 years in the past.
One group sends out scouts to gather information, and they find that they are, in fact, about to witness the historical Battle of Sekigahara between the forces of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and those of Ishida Mitsu-nari.