Tokyo Unnatural Forensics

Chapter 85: Miss Minami wants me to confess

The serial murder case in Chiba Prefecture caused a lot of controversy. When another Monday came, when Uesugi Sosetsu carried his briefcase to work, he clearly felt that even the atmosphere of the Metropolitan Police Department had been affected by this case.

The Metropolitan Police Department believes that Chiba Prefecture has not yet proactively requested help, which has severely hurt their self-esteem. On the other hand, these two serial murders are also quite strange.

For example, the Special Investigation Headquarters composed of the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters and the Public Security Police has so far refused to admit that the two cases have a definite connection, but only said that the two cases will be merged for investigation.

As a result, on Saturday and Sunday, all the violent groups and extremist organizations in Chiba Prefecture suffered.

The public security police who had made a big fool of themselves in front of the people were really furious this time. The Director of the National Police Agency's Security Bureau, Tsuyoshi Kudo, officially announced that the level of alert would be raised to the highest level, and almost all the major public security departments were mobilized.

In response to the possible portrait of the murderer, the public security department first focused on cracking down on violent gangs in Chiba Prefecture.

In Japan, the problem of yakuza gangs is a long-standing one.

The origin of the Japanese underworld is generally believed to be after the Meiji Restoration, when the samurai class lost a large amount of land and rice and lost their source of livelihood, so they had to start becoming "evil parties" and gradually evolved into the predecessor of the gangs.

But in fact, the origin of the underworld was long before the Meiji Restoration, that is, it appeared in the so-called mid-Edo period, and many of them evolved from the hatamoto and landless ronin of the Tokugawa shogunate.

After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, there were no more major wars. The old Tokugawa turtle also deliberately drove hundreds of thousands of ronin to Osaka Castle through the Siege of Osaka and then wiped them out through war. Therefore, when the Tokugawa shogunate was just established, the world was very peaceful.

However, the samurai class was ultimately non-productive. After the war ended, the samurai could only put their swords into storage and let their horses roam the mountains. Also, due to restrictions imposed by the shogunate, they could only live on a fixed salary while maintaining their dignity as samurai. Soon, the shogunate's hatamoto samurai began to borrow money from merchants, become insolvent, sell their children when their salaries were not enough to pay the interest, and so on.

This kind of thing happened during the Kamakura shogunate, and it can be said to be one of the important reasons that led to the demise of the Kamakura shogunate.

The shogunate has been committed to solving this problem, but it has never been able to solve it fundamentally. Finally, the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, was forced to use the huge amount of gold and silver left by Tokugawa Ieyasu to help all the hatamoto samurai pay off all their debts at one time.

But this was only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. Within a decade or two, the hatamoto samurai began to be heavily in debt again, and the Edo Shogunate could no longer help the hatamoto samurai pay off their debts. Many hatamoto samurai could only do "private work".

This was the predecessor of the Yakuza. Then, this group of down-and-out samurai, together with the samurai who lost their land and salaries after the Meiji Restoration, formed the Yakuza. This thing can be found in almost every country in modern times, so I won’t talk about it.

What really made the Japanese gangs particularly famous was after the war. As we all know, post-war Japan was basically in ruins, and the entire society was in a state of chaos and disorder. At this time, the large number of Koreans, or Koreans who had originally immigrated to Japan, took the opportunity to rise up and established a large number of underworld organizations to commit murder and robbery. In the face of the Koreans' grouping together, the local Japanese also formed a large number of organizations to fight back. This is the origin of modern Japanese gangs.

GHQ turned a blind eye to this and did not care as long as it did not cause a big fuss.

The peak of Japanese gangs was in the 70s. In the 70s, with the third update of the US-Japan Security Treaty, US forces began to withdraw from Japan on a large scale. They no longer had comprehensive control like the first security treaty in the 50s. After the withdrawal of US forces, a large number of vacuum areas were left in society. It was during this period that the power of Japanese gangs reached its peak.

The most famous one is the so-called marketing literature "Yamaguchi-gumi's annual net profit is 500 billion US dollars".

This is pure nonsense. Microsoft's annual net profit may not reach 500 billion US dollars. Walmart, the number one in the Fortune 100, generally has an annual net profit of around 150-1000 billion US dollars. Apple's net profit in its peak year was only close to billion US dollars.

This number is actually in Japanese yen, and it is not net profit, but total revenue.

But even so, that was 70 billion yen in the 500s, and we can see how powerful the gangs were in that era. The Yamaguchi-gumi's industries almost covered a large number of black and gray areas. They were indeed arrogant when they were at their peak. Not to mention anything else, the entertainment industry, the film industry, the singing industry, the manzai and rakugo worlds were all blackened by these gangs.

The famous artist Ken Takakura (the one who starred in "The Chase") often plays an anti-black fighter in the crew in one scene, and in the next scene he will go to the birthday party of a big boss to sing Happy Birthday.

Even the "Yakuza" series only dares to tell the story of the bubble economy era, but does not dare to go back to tell the story of the gangster boom in the 70s.

However, the officials are not there to sit back and do nothing. With the economic recovery and the gradual takeover of areas that the United States has let go, the endless violent assassinations and gun fights during the heyday of the Yamaguchi-gumi have made the officials realize that these are no longer ordinary people. They need to be treated to purple eggs and loyal oranges, and be ready for six sticks per second.

Outline on Countermeasures against Violent Groups, the First Operation Top, the Second and Third Operation Top, the "Countermeasures Act against Violent Groups", and the Special Countermeasures Office against Organizations.

Many self-media like to say that "Japan is the only country that recognizes the legality of gangs." This theory is both right and wrong. First of all, gangs will not call themselves "gangs." Most of them are established legal associations, and the Japanese Constitution stipulates that citizens have freedom of association. So from this point of view, Japan does recognize that "gangs are legal."

However, being “legal” comes at a price.

If you don't accept this "legal" sign, then you are an "illegal organization". Since you are illegal, then whatever the police do to you is reasonable! Don't blame us for shooting you! After all, you are illegal.

Now that you have accepted "legality", you must abide by our Anti-Violent Group Law.

You can’t apply for a bank card because you are a Yakuza, and you can’t apply for an ID card because you are a Yakuza.

You cannot register a car, rent a house, enter and exit some normal places, or apply for insurance. Even if someone else applies for you, as long as they confirm that Yakuza are involved in the insurance, the insurance company can naturally refuse to pay the claim, or even call the police and send you to jail for insurance fraud.

Your children cannot go to school because you are a Yakuza, and your immediate family members’ jobs will be affected because you are a Yakuza.

The police generally need evidence to arrest someone, but the Yakuza do not. The police need a search warrant to search a house, but the Yakuza do not. The police will do their best to reduce the use of force to avoid complaints, but for the Yakuza, beating them is useless. If they dare to resist, they will be pierced. Who made you a Yakuza?

This is the price of "legalization". To a certain extent, it is actually "legal pariahization" and "forced publicity".

But it is undeniable that although "legalization" has made gangsters become sewer rats and dehumanized pariahs, it has also left them some living space, such as selling boxed lunches on the street, valet parking, sex industry, transportation industry, pachinko, construction and civil engineering industry, and fishery. These industries have more or less a certain degree of gray area. Putting these people in these gray areas, monitoring them and letting them consume each other, while more or less giving them a glimmer of life, this is Japan's approach. As for whether it is good or not, everyone can judge for themselves.

Chiba Prefecture has a very developed fishery and transportation industry, so naturally it is inevitable that some violent groups are attached to it. Normally the public security can ignore it, but now they are getting angry and have taken strong measures.

The camera turns and returns to the Metropolitan Police Department.

Uesugi Sosetsu found Miss Minami who was working in the Personnel Department. She was concentrating on looking at the report on the computer.

"Watanabe, what's wrong? What's the situation?" Uesugi Sosetsu walked to the side of Watanabe Minami, pulled over a chair and sat down.

Watanabe Minami glanced at him unhappily. Miss Minami was in the arrogant beauty mode when she was working: "They opened fire, killing three people and injuring five. If you watch the news, you will know that they all resisted fiercely."

"I'm not asking that. I'm asking if there are any new clues about the murderer of the case?" Uesugi Sosetsu nodded. He had watched the news in the morning.

Watanabe Minami became curious: "Why are you so concerned about this case? Uesugi, you seem to come and ask about it every day."

"Tiantian? It seems so." Uesugi Sosetsu said to himself: "I'm just curious."

Watanabe Minami sneered and shook her head repeatedly: "It's obviously your stubborn occupational disease that's acting up, Uesugi-kun, I don't know how many people you're going to offend with your personality."

After hearing this, Uesugi Sosetsu chuckled and said, "Isn't it you? So I came to ask you, my Miss Minami."

Watanabe Minami nodded inwardly upon hearing this, and said calmly: "Didn't I tell you that I would notify you as soon as there is new news?"

The face of the Metropolitan Police Department lifted her chin with her hands in the long sleeves of her police uniform and said with a playful look in her eyes: "Don't think I don't know that you secretly went to Chiba on Sunday! Uesugi, don't you think you went a little too far? This is an illegal search!"

"Father has already promised you to find a way to get the Metropolitan Police Department involved in this matter. As long as we get permission, I will let you investigate and perform an autopsy as soon as possible. Can't you wait a little longer?"

Miss Minami's cold and arrogant tone carries a strong deterrent power.

Maybe it’s her outstanding looks, maybe it’s her temperament as a young lady, or maybe it’s the power bestowed upon her by her father.

Although she spoke in a low voice and only Uesugi Sosetsu could hear it, when she raised her head and showed a sharp look as if she had a conflict with Uesugi Sosetsu, the temperature in the Personnel Department dropped by several degrees. The curious crowd around and the few female police officers who were chatting immediately became frightened and dared not speak a word.

Uesugi Sosetsu paused for a moment. He didn't expect Miss Minami to have this attitude.

"We searched hundreds of people, but only a few fit the description of the murderer. As you know, the gangs are now aging, and there are no young people doing this. The few who did not fit the description, or had clear alibis."

Miss Minami smiled and changed the subject back to business.

She didn't want to conflict with Uesugi Sosetsu, but she had to control the initiative and at the same time cover up the embarrassment that her father Watanabe Eiji tried his best but failed to intervene in the Chiba Prefecture case. After all, the Metropolitan Police Department is a local department.

She had boasted before that you would be responsible for the autopsy and reasoning, and she would take care of the rest, but this promise is no longer working so quickly. We have to put down this guy's arrogance.

Be honest!

Miss Minami thought sinisterly.

After a period of contact, what Miss Minami likes to see most is Uesugi Sosetsu's unexpected expressions.

To be more precise, she liked the unexpected expressions that Uesugi Sosetsu would show under her hands.

This was her evil taste after witnessing Uesugi Sosetsu's multiple autopsy scene judgments.

This man is a double-edged sword, very sharp and very useful, but also somewhat stubborn and uncontrollable.

Miss Minami chooses to accept the challenge.

She wanted to seize the initiative, take the lead, and make this man work for her.

Tools should be good tools! You are the best tool, and I am your best sword holder.

The partner we form can solve all difficulties.

perfect!

　Some people mentioned the young ladies of the underworld, but this is pure naive imagination. In fact, such people are pariahs in society and no one with a clean background will consider them.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)