Note: The Japanese title of this story, 国境の南、太陽の西, is transcribed as Kokkyō no minami, taiyō no nishi in the Revised Hepburn notation, and means "south of the border, west of the sun". It is composed of 国境, kokkyō, "border", の, no, "of", 南, minami, "south", 太陽, taiyō, "sun", の, no, "of", and 西, nishi, "west".