Chapter 55 third quarter

When describing the course of this incident, in addition to the records of the trial, I also generally referred to various leaflets issued by the "'White Bird Incident' Countermeasure Committee", the "White Bird Incident" written by Yong Jia, and Gao An's notes. , and Murakami Kuniji's "Statement of Complaint" and so on. In fact, I am quite disapproving of the book written by Tieping.Even so, the book is well-written. In this way, according to Narita’s confession, Sapporo Committee’s regional chairman, Niji Murura, members of the Guidance Department, Naomichi Sato, Yuka Taihei, vice chairman of the military committee, Jun Shishido, military committee member (a student of Hokkaido University) Tomoya Tsuruta, and liaison officer Yinchuan and others were exposed to the investigation, and the investigation team concentrated their efforts to arrest them.

Since Murakami Kuniji is the highest person in charge of the Guidance Department, he is also the chairman of the regional committee and the chairman of the military committee, so he became the first target of arrest.Just as he was running for Shunichi Suginohara as a member of the House of Representatives and was moving around, he was surrounded and arrested by more than a dozen policemen. Murakami was born in a poor peasant family in the suburbs of Asahikawa, and only graduated from elementary school.His father died long ago, and he was raised by his mother alone.When he was a teenager, he worked as a long-term laborer for a landlord's family. After the defeat of the war, the countryside was in chaos. In order to practice the Marxism-Leninism he had always studied, he joined the Communist Party.Around the 24th year of the Showa era, he became the chairman of the Rumoi Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, launched the peasant movement, and fought against taxes.

In the 26th year of the Showa era, Yuko, a member of the Hokkaido Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, took a fancy to Murakami's fighting ability and appointed him as the chairman of the Sapporo Committee.At this time, the Japanese Communist Party proposed a "military policy" after the Fifth National Congress. It seems that this situation is most suitable for Chairman Murakami.He arranged an underground branch network under each general branch, appointed "military committee members", and organized a "core self-defense force". Murakami, who was taken to the police station, stubbornly exercised his right to silence and refused to answer any interrogations, which fully demonstrated the spirit of the chairman of the committee.

On the other hand, the investigation headquarters focused on investigating the whereabouts of the contact person "Yokawa". "Yinchuan" is the liaison between the underground organization and the legal organization. He knows all the secrets of the Communist Party, so he also understands the truth of the "White Bird Incident".According to this view, the investigative headquarters made a desperate search for him, but lost two weeks in vain, and his whereabouts were completely unknown. It was only after great difficulty that I found "Yinchuan". It turned out that since he resigned from his position as a full-time liaison officer of the party, he had left the party's work and was working in a certain life insurance company.

Not only that, but before that, "Otokawa" would be arrested by the Hokkaido National Police's security intelligence department, and under the protection of the agency of the intelligence department, he provided a lot of information about the Japanese Communist Party.In other words, he is actually a secret agent of the national police. The investigative headquarters was so careless that it didn't know these things, and spent two weeks in vain trying to find out his whereabouts. From here we can see the factional struggle between the national police and the city police.The city police were desperately trying to track down the whereabouts of "Yinchuan", while the National Police watched on with a cold eye, not disclosing anything about "Yinchuan" to the investigative headquarters.

The rivalry between the Intelligence Department of the U.S. General Command (the head of the National Police) and the Civil Affairs Bureau (the head of the Autonomous Police) is also manifested at the grassroots level of the Japanese police. There is also the fact that the investigative headquarters was deeply indignant at the actions of the national police and decided to arrest "Otokawa"; but the chief of the national police security section went to Deputy Prosecutor Takagi to plead not to arrest him for the time being. The national police immediately reported the information provided by "Yoshikawa" to the national police headquarters, but the investigation headquarters of the "Shiratori Incident" kept it strictly confidential.

The information of "Otokawa" is accurate.This man was invaluable at a time when the authorities knew almost nothing about the overall picture of the underground organization of the Japanese Communist Party. But as far as the "Shiratori incident" is concerned, the struggle between the municipal police and the national police ends here.Later, the authorities decided to call the Security Section of the National Police, under the command of Prosecutor Abe of the District Prosecutor's Office, to interrogate "Otokawa" at his home. It was at the end of March that "Otokawa" left the underground activities of the full-time liaison officer and returned to the countryside in the Tokachi region—a period has passed since the "Shiratori Incident".The reason for his resignation is: he is going to get married, and he has to support his family after marriage, so he doesn't want to be a liaison officer anymore.

The meeting of the Guidance Department decided to question "Yinchuan", but on that day, he asked someone to bring a message saying: "I am ashamed to see you." After receiving this report, the party gave him the punishment of "suspending party activities". And agreed to move his account to Tokachi. The party thought that he had indeed returned to the countryside, but who knew that this "Otokawa" liaison officer was still in Sapporo, and kept in close contact with the police, providing information to the police. "Yokawa" was reported to the police station and interrogated, and it was the first time that he confessed the whole picture of the underground organization of the Japanese Communist Party.Not only that, he also drew a diagram of the underground party organization and the distribution map of the secret residences and contact stations of the party members, and then talked about the actions of the responsible party members before and after the "Shiratori incident" and the development of the military policy. And make a case for weapons.

In this way, the responsible party members were arrested one after another. Among them, Naomichi Sato was arrested in August of the 27th year of the Showa era, and Yong Jia was arrested in April of the 28th year of the Showa era.But two important figures were in hiding. That is Shindo Jun and Sato Hiroshi. As mentioned earlier, Shishido is the vice chairman of the Military Struggle Committee, and he is also the captain of the "Core Self-Defense Force".He came from the branch of the National Telegraph and Telephone Union. During the "Red Purge", he became a standing member of the Sapporo Committee. With the implementation of the military policy, he was elected as the captain of the "Core Self-Defense Force".He is brave and will carry a pistol in his pocket, follow the American soldiers, and wait for the opportunity to snipe.On the other hand, he has delicate feelings, and he often gathers young men and women in the workplace to direct them to sing together, mimeograph new poetry magazines of colleagues, and so on.

He is also the mastermind of the "Red Light Incident".He made such a plan: When the train carrying coal passed through the Ishikari Plain, he would shake the red light to tell the train to stop.Dozens of Communist Party members who had ambushed by the line in advance rushed into the truck, dumped the coal on the ground, let the people who had no coal to burn pick it up, and then fled.The plan failed three times. Regarding Shishido's character, Taihei wrote: "But our dear Captain Shishido is by no means a fanciful, unrealistic party member. Whoever doubts this, please look at his activities as an organizer. A small group of powerless workers and peasants Didn’t he immediately become a team of energetic revolutionary vanguards when he came into contact with it? In the spring of Showa 27, he was penniless and had nothing but the clothes on his body. He ran like that and was hit by the tsunami on the Hidaka sea. He quickly recruited forty or fifty party members and people who sympathized with the party and organized them. Sometimes he went to the farms during the busy farming season and used the movement to support the peasants to develop the party. Power. His activities have attracted the attention of the whole party."

While other party members were arrested, Shishido disappeared, and his whereabouts are still unknown. On June 9, Tomohiko Ko Yasu, a student of Hokkaido University and a member of the "Core Self-Defense Force", was arrested at a farm in the suburbs of Nayoro, not far from Asahikawa, Hokkaido. He was immediately escorted to Sapporo.It is said that he "didn't care about it after being arrested, and his attitude was very free and easy, and the officials in charge were unanimously deeply moved." A few days later, he suddenly asked the interrogator for a pen and paper, and wrote the "Application for Quitting the Party."What is striking is that many students at Hokkaido University were involved in this incident.According to Taihei's account, they were all members of the so-called "Core Self-Defense Forces" and carried out military struggles centered on Tsuruta, Obayashi, Takaan, Murate, and Kadowaki. The first step in the military struggle plan was to recapture the Korean party members who were escorted from Asahikawa to Omura and the "red light incident" that stopped the coal train.The struggle was sharp, and hand grenades were prepared in order to organize the peasants for resistance and self-defense. On December 29 of that year, these team members were summoned to the Hokkaido University Branch of the Association of Democratic Scientists, and the chairman Murakami asked them to share the task of military operations.He said: "While recapturing the arrested party members, we must launch an anti-fascist struggle against the following three people: Takada, the mayor of Sapporo who was in charge of the negotiations, the chief of the Shiratori Police Section who arrested them, and the prosecutor Shioya who handled the case. Throw stones at Shioya and Takata's house. As for Shiratori, we will deal with him carefully and thoroughly after the New Year." They began to act from that night, writing more than a hundred threatening leaflets, pasting fifty or sixty on the wall of the prosecutor's house in Shioya, and throwing stones at his house.Attacked the official residence of Mayor Takata in the same way. On January 4th, Showa 27th, Murakami summoned his team again and told them, "Shoot Shiratori to death with a pistol. In order to achieve this goal, you must investigate his actions." The above is the so-called "communist Murakami was convicted of murder based on this point. The players unanimously agreed.Tied describes their actions thus: "The team was divided into two teams. One team was guarding near the Central Police Station, and the other team was guarding near Shiratori's house. They began to operate from the next day. , Takaan, and Murate, Hiroshi Sato was also listed as a team member. Together with Tsuruta and Obayashi, he formed the squad that guarded near the Central Police Station. "The other three people were in charge of monitoring near Shiratori's residence. They kept watch at the bus stop and tram stop from morning to night. During this period, they saw Shiratori three times, but because he was riding a bicycle, he chased after him and disappeared. While they were engaged in investigation activities day and night, they also continued to conduct very strict training. When they were free at noon, they were led by Shishido to practice shooting in the depths of Yuanshan. Gao An only went there once. "Passing through Maruyama Park, I came to Takizawa, and climbed along the path leading to Horomi Ridge. Halfway through the climb, I stepped on the two-foot-thick snow with no trace of people, and walked another fifty or sixty meters. It was a slope with a big linden tree growing. Targeting the fallen leaves on the snow, each team member fired a shot. "With the sound of 'dang', the gunshot that shocked the heart made people feel unspeakably happy. "They also practiced throwing grenades twice. They threw them at the stones in the stream and the hard road, but only two actually exploded. Because there is only one stylus on the grenade, if it falls place, it will not explode. After practice, they think this thing has no practical use. "In addition, Tsuruta, Sato, and Shishido went to practice pistol shooting together on several occasions. During the investigation of Operation Shiratori, only these two men carried a pistol. "At that time, the people who conducted the investigation activities gathered at Sato's house in Minami Nijo Nishi 21-chome. Everyone studied the structure of the pistol here, and practiced dismantling and wiping it. "This kind of training from morning to night is very strict on the one hand, and it is also a terrorist act. On the night of January 21, their goal was finally achieved. Shishido, Tsuruta and Sato persisted until the end , finally achieved the goal. Gao An was also as happy as if he did it himself. When he and Tsuruta met in the morning of the next day (22nd), they shook hands warmly. "From that day on, the team members continued their activities, drafting and distributing the popular leaflet--'Behold, hell! The shameful fate of the murderous enemy of liberty, the chief of the Shiratori City Police Department, is the fate of the entire fascist police force. fate.’ At the same time, postcards were mailed for the purpose of obstructing the investigation.”