Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 84: The whole country is shocked

The Director-General of Security of the National Police Agency has the rank of Superintendent of Police. Although it seems that his rank is not as high as that of Watanabe Eiji, who is the Superintendent of Police, the position of Director-General of Security has always been very special.

The position of Minister of Security originally had two meanings, namely protecting the safety of important political figures and being in charge of important weapons and equipment. For example, if criminal police want to obtain the right to use weapons with higher authority than pistols, such as the MP5 submachine guns equipped by the special police team in the Fuji TV case, they must obtain permission from the Security Department.

The Security Planning Section and the External Intelligence Section under the Security Department are the backbone of national security and the essential source of various public security search privileges.

The position of Minister of Security has gradually become the leader of the public security police, controlling the security work of major politicians from above and the guarantee of weapons and national security from below.

Kudo Tsuyoshi looks very festive.

Yes, few people would associate this guy with the public security leader when they see him. He is not tall, probably around 168-169, but claims to be 172. He is slightly plump, with a slightly bald forehead but relatively thick hair. He has a pair of small round eyes, and is very friendly and contagious when he smiles. He looks like a good man like Maitreya Buddha, with the demeanor of an elder.

Kudo Tsuyoshi is three years older than Watanabe Eiji and is 3 years old this year. In Japan's environment, he is considered to be young and energetic. Compared with Watanabe Eiji, Kudo Tsuyoshi has very rich experience in working in the security and public security departments in his early years. Before the appointment of this Superintendent General, Kudo Tsuyoshi always thought it would be himself.

Times have changed, sir. With the changes in the international situation after the 1980s, it became increasingly difficult for the public security faction to become the Metropolitan Superintendent, and the criminal faction gradually gained the upper hand. Especially after the Fuji TV case, when they advocated closing the building and ultimately achieved unimaginable success, Kudo Tsuyoshi realized that there was no hope for this term of Metropolitan Superintendent, and they could only count on the next one.

Therefore, it was he who insisted on arranging this case in Chiba County.

As a result, now he is in a difficult situation and is not popular with anyone!

Damn, how did the Japanese police become like this?
What are the police in Chiba Prefecture doing? Why are they still here when there's already been a case of an elementary school student being dismembered?

After answering the phone, Kudo Tsuyoshi paused for a moment and immediately said flatteringly: "Captain Kaneko, this is Kudo Tsuyoshi. I am very worried and have caused you concern!"

"This is Police Chief Kaneko Sawaro... Minister Kudo!" Police Chief Kaneko Sawaro came up and complained, "What on earth are you doing?"

"The dismemberment case in Chiba Prefecture was already a big deal. It was you public security police who said it was related to a gang, so I helped you suppress it. But now there's a second case, another elementary school student who was murdered and dismembered. What are you going to do?" Commander Kaneko was a little exasperated. "Didn't you say the case was solved? Now Disney in the United States has sent a letter of protest. If this continues, our country will become a laughing stock in the international community!"

"I am extremely apprehensive to ask you personally about this matter. We are not sure yet that there is no obvious connection between the second case and the first case, sir." Kudo Tsuyoshi was also under great pressure. Facing the questioning of the head of the National Police Agency, he could only evade the main issue: "Please rest assured, we will speed up the investigation."

"I don't care, Minister Kudo. The cabinet is also paying attention to this matter!" Chief Kaneko gritted his teeth and said, "Let's set up a special joint investigation headquarters now and let the Metropolitan Police Department send out key personnel to jointly handle it!"

"Well... excuse me for being blunt, but there is no need for this at the moment, sir. It would be detrimental to your authority to have the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department interfere in local affairs. Watanabe Eiji should just stay in Tokyo." When Chief of Police Kudo heard about the Metropolitan Police Department, he felt like he was being stabbed, and his tone became a little tougher: "Our public security will handle it. It is not good for the Metropolitan Police Department to interfere in local affairs."

"Really? Minister Kudo, are you sure you can handle this? Don't cause any more trouble. NHK and the five major private TV stations already know the news. Chiba Prefecture is already in chaos. If the case can't be solved as soon as possible..."

"The incident in Chiba County was caused by the negligence of the Chiba County police. We, the Public Security Bureau, will handle it properly. Please rest assured, sir. You will definitely hear good news from us soon."

"Well, since you've promised me, I'll trust you this time." Commander Kaneko finally passed on the blame and breathed a sigh of relief: "Minister Kudo, please don't act without consulting me next time. Otherwise, even if I can forgive you, the National Public Security Commission and the Cabinet will not forgive you!"

"Grateful!"

After talking for a few more words, Kudo just put down the phone, his face looking gloomy.

Like Watanabe Eiji, he looked down on his immediate superior, this "official residence puppet", from the bottom of his heart.

If you come from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, you should just focus on aquaculture and tree planting in the orchard. You don't know anything but come here to ask questions. What else can you do except shirk responsibility and avoid getting into trouble?
However, unlike Watanabe Eiji, as the leader of the Public Security Bureau, Kudo Tsuyoshi knew more.

Although Minister Kaneko is a puppet of the official residence, as a scholar-bureaucrat who graduated from the University of Tokyo, he has strong connections in the cabinet, especially with the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

"Change the schedule!" Security Chief Kudo whispered.

"what?"

"Raise the alert level to the highest level and enter a state of alert!"

"Mobilize all personnel to conduct a comprehensive cleanup of violent gangs and extremist organizations in Chiba Prefecture! Issue weapons permits to the special mobile team, and allow them to open fire directly if they encounter resistance!"

"Yes!"

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On Saturday night, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Eiji Watanabe took the initiative to report his judgment to National Police Agency Commissioner Kaneko Sawaro, and proposed that the Metropolitan Police Department select key personnel and form a joint special investigation headquarters with the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters to solve the two cases of murder and dismemberment of elementary school students as soon as possible.

However, this proposal was flatly rejected by the public security department.

Uesugi Sosetsu had no choice but to go to Chiba alone on Sunday, hoping to see if he could obtain some intelligence through illegal searches, or get close to the body.

Unfortunately, the Japanese public security is not good at doing other things, and their ability to block and keep secrets is very strong. Uesugi Souji could not find a chance to get close to the scene at all, and he couldn't even figure out where the bodies were stored by the public security.

This trip to Chiba was fruitless. He had wanted to try to conduct an illegal search, but fortunately Miss Minami had warned him in advance. Before he and Erina had conducted an illegal search, the Metropolitan Police Department was able to clean up their mess. If they offended the public security department now, it would not be a matter of getting them out, but a matter of holding a seventh-day funeral for them.

They are the police! Not us criminal police!

Uesugi Munen knew this very well. After searching in vain, he did not dare to break into the police station. If the other side shot him to death, who would he ask for revenge? The criminal police did not dare to shoot at will, and the police would not care about you so much.

Despite this, Uesugi Sosetsu has been closely following the development of the situation.

The body was found and reported to the police on Saturday afternoon, and the entire Chiba Prefecture had learned the news by Sunday.

Another elementary school student was murdered and dismembered!
How cruel and perverted is this? How crazy is this?
What on earth are the police doing?
By Monday, except for Tokyo TV, NHK and the four major commercial TV stations and newspapers in the entire Kanto broadcasting area all reported the second serial murder case in Chiba Prefecture on their front pages. This case began to ferment violently, and 2CH and Yahoo were discussing it like crazy.

If the public security police could still use the excuse of "involving a violent group" for the first case, then the outbreak of the second case directly led to collective panic. Even though the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters repeatedly stated that there was no necessary connection between the first and second cases, the panic atmosphere in Chiba Prefecture was still out of control.

The case was not solved.

On Tuesday, cancellations for Shinkansen trains and flights to Chiba Prefecture reached 40%, and Narita International Airport became much more desolate.

The police still haven't solved the case.

On Wednesday, half of the elementary schools and kindergartens in Chiba Prefecture were closed, and the remaining half forced parents to pick up their children in person. The Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters dispatched thousands of police officers to patrol the entire prefecture, especially Chiba City, 24 hours a day, and also cooperated with many local associations and autonomous organizations to conduct voluntary searches, but to no avail.

The police still haven't solved the case.

On Thursday, public opinion escalated further. Since the incident involved warehouses and factories near the Nissin Group, the Nissin Group publicly offered a reward for possible clues leading to the murderer, with the highest reward amount being 3000 million yen.

That afternoon, the Kikkoman Group, Japan's largest soy sauce producer with a 350-year history and headquartered in Chiba, also joined the bounty, and the highest bounty amount rose to 5500 million yen.

The police still haven't solved the case.

On Friday, a march broke out in Chiba Prefecture, with 28000 parents taking to the streets to protest and demonstrating in front of the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters, demanding that the police catch the murderer as soon as possible. The Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters Chief led many senior officials to apologize and said they would do their best to catch the murderer.

All public celebrations in Chiba Prefecture were cancelled, and local autonomous organizations and the Chamber of Commerce contributed additional money to increase the reward to 100 million yen in an effort to find the murderer.

Due to the second murder and dismemberment case of an elementary school student, the number of visitors to Tokyo Disneyland theme park in Chiba Prefecture dropped by 70%.

This matter began to attract the attention of the United States, and the BBC TV station also reported the incident with a hellish filter.

The U.S. Disney Legal Department sent a letter of protest, demanding that Chiba Prefecture resolve the matter as soon as possible.

The entire police force began to feel unimaginable pressure. The chief of the Chiba Prefecture Police Headquarters almost turned gray overnight. Inspector Yukinoshita Hachiman and others in charge of the case moved all their bedding to the Special Investigation Headquarters and spent several days and nights investigating the case except for sleeping.

And by Friday, the public security investigation finally began to make some progress.

First, the handwriting identification experts found that the situation in the second case was significantly different from that in the first case.

In the second case, the murderer left handwriting. Although it can be seen that the murderer intentionally wrote crookedly, handwriting identification experts still found that the murderer's cultural level should not be very high. For example, the words he used were relatively low-end, the strokes of Chinese characters were incorrect, and some hiragana were not abbreviated into Chinese characters. They concluded that the person who left the handwriting was not a knowledgeable person.

After door-to-door visits asking residents to "voluntarily cooperate with the investigation," some residents said that around the time of the incident, they saw a suspicious man in his thirties, about 175 cm tall, riding a motorcycle past the weather station. However, because there were few surveillance cameras nearby, only other witnesses said they saw the motorcycle.

In addition, there are witnesses who stated that during the period between the cases of Junpei Doima and Ayaka Kawanishi, a black car from another place was seen parked near the school of the deceased. The people in the car had flat heads and were strong.

With this important information, the public security department drew a portrait of the murderer.

He is about 175 cm tall, strong, with a flat head, aged 25-40, with a Yakuza background and may be a Yakuza member, with extensive experience in killing people and disposing of corpses.

Based on the circumstances of the two cases, the murderer is obviously very familiar with the terrain of Chiba City and the surrounding areas, and tends to be a gang member or former gang member related to the local gang Futaba Group.

It was already November, and the public security police finally got a clue, so under the order of the Chief of Security, Tsuyoshi Kudo, the public security search team was dispatched! And all of them were equipped with guns!

All violent gangs and extremist organizations in Chiba Prefecture are targets of search by the public security police. In addition, during the first search of the hideout, the police opened fire on the spot because some people resisted.

He actually dared to resist our police's search. He is no longer an ordinary citizen. We must take strong measures!

At this point, things began to reach a climax, and not only in Japan, other countries also began to report on the incident.

The governor of Chiba Prefecture announced that martial law has begun in the entire prefecture.

　Yui Aragaki is at least 172cm tall, but she always reports herself as 169cm tall, haha~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)