==Overview== In postwar times, the Shōnan region gained prominence in Ishihara Shintaro`s prize-winning 1955 novel, Taiyō no Kisetsu (Season of the Sun). The novel, which was also made into a popular movie, portrayed the hedonistic lifestyle of young sun-worshippers from elite families (taiyo-zoku, the `sun-tribe`), who hung out on Shōnan be......