Sanga Moyu (山河燃ゆ) is a Japanese television drama based on the 1983 novel Futatsu no Sokoku (二つの祖国) by Toyoko Yamazaki.
After the war Kenji finds Nagiko, a childhood friend who had confessed her love for him just before he returned to the United States.
[2] Some individual Japanese Americans, including Mike Masaoka, also wrote to the NHK to express their concerns about airing the show in the United States.
[2] The show's name was also changed from "Futatsu no Sokoku" (Two Homelands) to "Sanga Moyu" (The Mountains and Rivers are Burning) for this reason.
[4] The series was considered unusual in Japan because NHK's Taiga dramas usually concern history before the Meiji era.