Chapter 51 Section 17

The defendants in this incident were all arrested one by one based on Akama's confession, like following a sweet potato vine.First, Suzuki, Takahashi, Honda, Abe, and Sato were arrested based on Akama's confession—most of them were from the National Railways. Then Hamasaki was arrested, and according to his confession, Sugiura, Ota, Sato Daiji, Nikaido, Kobayashi, and Kikuchi were arrested-most of them were from Toshiba. In order to connect the National Railways and Toshiba, a joint plan between them had to be fabricated.This depends on Ota Shoji's confession.According to Ota's confession, Hisashi Takeda (chairman of the co-planning), Chito Saito, Jurasatsu Okada and others were arrested, and all the defendants in the incident were charged with "co-planning".In short, for the procuratorial authorities, the confessions of Akama, Hamasaki and Ota are the three keys to this incident.

But in fact, there is another person who almost didn't become the other protagonist of the incident.That was the eighteen-year-old Takeshi Kikuchi, who was arrested by Toshiba a week after Akama was arrested.Kikuchi boy was arrested on suspicion of theft, but in fact this was fabricated.But the authorities did not let him go back, but immediately started investigating him for the "Songchuan Incident".However, he accidentally contracted appendicitis and was released. What would have happened if Kikuchi boy hadn't been suffering from appendicitis at this time?Like Akama, he must have been a clue to Toshiba's plot to overturn the train.Therefore, it can be said that the investigating authorities attempted to make arrests in this case based on the two lines of Akama and Kikuchi.It can also be said that Kikuchi was suffering from appendicitis, so he had no choice but to focus on Hamasaki as a substitute.

In any case, rather than relying on the confession of the boy from Chima, it is better to use this confession as a bridgehead to target the Communists one by one and frame them as defendants.This method of the authorities can indeed be said to be clever.Before Honda was arrested, the Tamagawa police would tell Akama, "Honda said you did it," and asked him to name Honda.This can also be inferred from this incident. Some parts of this passage make people think that the police knew clearly in advance what the defendants were doing.The personality, habits, family situation, hobbies, and interests of each defendant were probably investigated in detail.Maybe the Tamagawa Police Department also sent subordinates to find out the situation, but I deeply feel that in order to obtain such accurate information, the police authorities must have sent spies into Toshiba and National Railways at ordinary times.

One episode suffices to suggest this.There is a Communist county council member named A.He is a Communist Party cadre in the Fukushima area.This year, the Japanese Communist Party happened to be criticized by the Communist Intelligence Bureau. It is said that A blamed the Communist Party in Yoyogi.Since this criticism, Fukushima's Communist Party has also split into two factions. A and the split faction quit the party together.But not long after, the faction fired him.The reason is that A's close relationship with the Special Examination Bureau has long been exposed.In other words, he was originally connected with the Special Investigation Bureau, which was collecting intelligence for the purpose of dealing with the Communist Party.

I think this fact can be used as circumstantial evidence for my speculation that there are spies sneaking into Toshiba and National Railways.