Keiko Yamasuki
Names: Keiko YamasukiKeikoYamasuki
First appears in Book 2: The Dark Forest, chapter 2 (Year 3, Crisis Era)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Dark Forest
- Ch 2Neuroscientist, Hines's wife, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for applying his theory to treating amnesia.
- Ch 3Keiko suggests Hines choose a direction that does something beneficial even if it fails; she enthusiastically supports his intelligence-enhancement plan.
- Ch 6Hines's wife; she entered hibernation later than him and spent eight years working on supercomputer projects, holding a psychology degree.
- Ch 6Her team built a traditional-architecture supercomputer ten thousand times more powerful than before, calling it the end of Moore's law; the other next-gen projects failed.
- Ch 6As she entered hibernation, Keiko Yamasuki's mind became suddenly clear and she showed horror and despair, but could not speak or stop it.
- Ch 7Yamasuki smiled mysteriously at Hines's remark and, after the hearing's adjournment, asks to speak despite not being a Wallfacer.
- Ch 7Keiko Yamasuki declares herself the last member of the ETO and Bill Hines's Wallbreaker, acting to fulfill her duty to the Lord.
- Ch 7She is Hines's wife; she deduced his true goal by studying his eyes and recognizing the same look in Imprinted people.
- Ch 7She committed seppuku on a chunk of iron ore in the UN Meditation Room, cursing Hines that his life would be worse than death.
Connections
- family ofBill Hineswife
- partner ofBill Hineshusband and wife
- ally ofBill Hinesco-lead research teams
- createdMental seal
- enemy ofBill Hineshis Wallbreaker
- member ofEarth-Trisolaris Organization
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Hines resolves on intelligence enhancement
Hines and Keiko agree he will pursue a century-scale project to enhance human intelligence via brain research as his Wallfacer plan.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Awakening and the virtual brain
Hines awakens and meets Yamasuki, who shows him the supercomputer's holographic display of her own brain scanned by the Resolving Imager.
- Book 2 · Ch 6The water-is-toxic experiment
After Subject 104 develops a belief that water is toxic following an enhanced scan, Hines repeats the experiment on himself and acquires the same delusion.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Wu Yue is refused
Wu Yue asks to have a belief in God implanted. Hines refuses because only the victory proposition is allowed, then reveals his own unused 'God is dead' proposition and expresses contempt for Wu Yue.
- Book 2 · Ch 6First space force volunteers receive faith
Four officers undergo the mental seal and leave serene; within a week over a hundred space force members follow. Hines and Yamasuki then decide to hibernate until the Trisolaran probes arrive.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Yamasuki's hibernation horror
Six months later, as Keiko Yamasuki enters hibernation, a sudden clarity strikes her, causing horror and despair she cannot voice; the operators dismiss it as normal reflex.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Reunion with Shi Qiang
Shi Qiang meets Luo Ji, gives him adjustable clothes and takes him out into the new world. Yamasuki meanwhile tries to speak at the hearing.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Yamasuki reveals herself as Hines's Wallbreaker
Before the Joint Conference, Yamasuki exposes that Hines's real plan was Escapism via the mental seal, with a hidden negative sign in all five devices, and that the Imprinted may still exist.