Tanaka chooses to give the access to England in returning for Bond completing a mission, on which Tanaka s best man had already been killed. Dr Guntrun Shatterhand, a Swiss botanist, has opened a garden in a Japanese castle, but has stocked it only with deadly and poisonous birds and fishes. Every year, thousands of Japanese flock to the garden to commit suicide. Through this wonderfully-written travelogue section, Bond slowly becomes Japanese. Bond chooses to climb up to the castle from the cliffs, helped by transport from Ama tribes of fishermen, and on Kuro Island he meets up with the stunningly beautiful Kissy Suzuki, who was a Hollywood star before choosing her life of poverty as a fisherwoman.
Bond gets to know the tribe and goes fishing every day with the naked women.
Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Bond recognised him at once from a photograph. Kissy leads Bond through the straits to the castle, and he climbs up using ninja techniques and hides in an outhouse. He sees both suicides and murder of people entering the garden, and the next morning he sees Blofeld and Bunt, heavily armoured, going for their walk. Pretending to be a dumb and deaf beggar, Bond is put above a geyser and told it will blow up at 11.15.