Tokyo ? A Japanese publisher said Friday that his company will be the first in the world to put out a novel said to have been completed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein the day before the U.S. invasion that ended his reign.

The book, to be titled “Akuma No Dance” (Devil’s Dance) in Japan, will be published by the Tokyo-based Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co. next week, said the company’s senior editorial official, Koichi Chikaraishi.

Jordan last year banned publication of the novel, known there as “Get Out, Damned One,” because of political concerns.

The novel revolves around a tribe living on the Euphrates River 1,500 years ago that succeeds in ousting an invading tribe through resistance. It tells the story of a man named Ezekiel who plots to overthrow a town’s sheik but is defeated by the sheik’s daughter and an Arab warrior.

The story appears to be a metaphor for a Zionist-Christian plot against Arabs and Muslims. Ezekiel is meant to symbolize the Jews.