Chapter 57 Section five

The above is the general process of the so-called "Shiratori incident".The Sapporo District Court made the above-mentioned judgment in the first instance.Later, in May of Showa 35, the Sapporo High Court made another judgment: "Cancel the original sentence (life imprisonment), and the defendant Murakami will be sentenced to 20 years in prison." (there are eleven charges: homicide, injury, violation of "Penalty prohibiting the use of explosives", etc.).The defendant immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.It is estimated that within Showa thirty-eight years, the Supreme Court will make a final judgment.

Several key points in the judgment of the Sapporo High Court will be discussed later. Among those who committed suicide in connection with the "Shiratori Incident" was Hideaki Sato, chairman of the Sapporo Appreciation Cooperative.He has a very eccentric personality and seems to be very sinister.It is said that when his subordinates discussed business with visitors, he used a tape recorder to record their words, and analyzed them in private afterwards.The so-called "Harada Intelligence" explained why he committed suicide, which will be discussed later.The other suicide was Gang Jin—that is, Min Bingyi, a Korean.Of the two so-called pistols in the Sapporo Military Council, the small one (the Bernardier pistol) was his—though it was not used in the incident.At the end of Showa 26, Min Byung-il told Sato Naodo that he had a pistol.After the announcement of the military policy, Sato Naoichi is trying to get the weapon.He said to Min Bingyi, "I'll keep it for you," and asked him for it, and handed it over to the Military Commission.But after the "White Bird Incident", the pistol fell into the police's investigation network.Therefore, the Japanese authorities will forcibly send Min Byung-il back to North Korea.He committed suicide because he was distressed by this matter.It is speculated that he died of taking a large amount of sleeping pills.

In addition, a high school student allegedly involved in the "red light incident" also committed suicide. The "White Bird Incident" is an extremely complicated and bizarre case. Here I want to talk about the "Harada Information" that explained the suicide of the chairman of the Sapporo Credit Cooperative (hereinafter referred to as Sapporo) Hideaki Sato, which was mentioned earlier. The person who wrote this information was Masao Harada, who used to be a member of Sato Hideaki and others.He was originally a member of the Japanese Communist Party, but was expelled from the party.

Regarding the content of this intelligence, the following is quoted from the "Shiratori Incident" issued by the "'Shiratori Incident' Countermeasures Committee": "When the 'Shiratori incident' happened, the investigating authorities initially assumed two situations. One assumption was that the Japanese Communist Party did it, and the other assumption was that the right-wing gangsters did it. The gangster is the director of the Sapporo Credit Union. A group of people who were disbanded from Sato's employment. "What is the basis for the speculation that it was Sato's gang that killed Shiratori? It turned out to be as follows.

"Sato took advantage of the authority of the chairman to do all kinds of bad things, from illegal loans to embezzlement of public funds. Shiratori and another police department of the City Police Department, Hatakeyama, caught Sato's handle and found various excuses to blackmail him. Before the incident happened about For three years, the two colluded with Sato. "The Hatakeyama police department is even more active in getting close to Sato. Through Hatakeyama, Sato paid a large amount of bribes to the leadership of the police station. There is no doubt that part of the money also went into Shiratori's pocket. But what Shiratori wants is not only money, he also has a strong Thoughts of promotion. Previously, he was promoted because of his detection of the illegal behavior of the Hokkaido Takusho Bank, and he resolutely reported it. This time it is the same for Sato. The more Shiratori tries to get close to Sato and grasp the illegal activities Sato did The more evidence they have, the more they want to expose Sato and his subordinates.

"Shiratori once whispered to the people around him: 'Satou will be imprisoned soon.' This word reached Sato's ears from nowhere. "Satou has long suffered from severe poisoning, and often takes this stimulant. He knows that Shiratori has been nailing his tip, and seems to have thought of various ways to deal with it. He also has the kind of poison that Philoben poisoners often suffer from. Symptoms of being persecuted. At that time, he once told his cronies: "'If I'm arrested, my health will break down. Then I'll just die.' "At that time, Sato told me (Harada) that he had hidden poison in his clothes, just in case.

"In November of the 26th year of the Showa era, Sato built a new house near Shiratori's house in Maruyama in the urban area, and asked his subordinates to live in it. None of his subordinates are ordinary hooligans, but the The superior right-winger fancied himself. "Among the big brothers, there is A, he is a burly thug, he is a direct descendant of the Black Dragon Society, he has committed murder before, and he is quite popular among the anti-communist hooligans. "These gangsters live in a two-story building in Yuanshan, which protrudes about six feet from Shiratori's house. You can see people coming and going in Shiratori's house at a glance. There is also a special building on the second floor that cannot be seen from the outside. The lookout window that comes out can be watched from there 24 hours a day.

"Satou felt that danger was imminent, and begged A to kill Shiratori. A pretended to be divorced, and had already sent his wife back to his hometown in November. This was probably for fear that what Sato entrusted would fail. And make preparations. Sato gave A 60 million won. "On the day Shiratori was killed, A and Shiratori met. It was between four o'clock and seven o'clock. Another person said that seven or eight minutes before the murder, he had been at Nanliujo Street West 5chome I saw Shiratori talking with another person while riding a bicycle six feet away from the scene. Someone once showed the photo of A to this witness, and he said, "That's right, it's this person .' This witness, who was also one of A's rascals, confirmed the incident to a reliable person.

"After the incident, Sato was arrested and detained at the North Police Station. As a result of the interrogation, he said, 'I will tell you everything in two or three days.' But he attempted suicide that night. Later, the authorities transferred him from the police station. Went to Datong's detention center, and ten famous lawyers including Yanze came forward to release him on bail. "A appears to have been interrogated, but the authorities did little to pursue him and somehow released him. "From the second day after the incident, Ota, Mukai and others from the 'anti-espionage team', together with Yumoto Hiroshi from the anti-communist alliance, flocked to the prosecutor's office almost every day, threatening: 'The prisoner is the Communist Party. Let’s go to the Communist Party!’ These two princes always drove around in the Sapporo Credit Union’s own car, and parked the car in front of the gate of the prosecutor’s office.

"At the beginning, the prosecutor's office was also divided into two factions. One faction believed that the Japanese Communist Party did it, and the other believed that it was the work of Zaxin. The pressure from the 'counterintelligence team' was strengthened, and those prosecutors who did not think it was the Japanese Communist Party were immediately arrested. Squeeze out. "The prosecutors who obey the instructions of the 'counterintelligence team' are headed by Takagi, and two other prosecutors are added, and the power of the investigation headquarters is in their hands.

"Shinkawa and Muraoka—the two prosecutors who planned to thoroughly interrogate Sato and A, were sent to Osaka and Fukuoka respectively. "After three months, it was very difficult to search Hatakeyama's residence in early May of the 27th year of the Showa era. Hatakeyama was not at home and went to the Police Academy. A Browning pistol was found on the spot. This is the United States after the armistice. Those lent to the Japanese police were later taken back; it is said that Hatakeyama did not return them, but hid them privately. "Immediately thereafter, the house of Hisazu Sato (brother of Chief Prosecutor Sato) who runs a pawn shop in Minamirokujo Nishi 4-chome in the urban area was searched, and three pistols were also found there. "With the cooperation of the noble officials, we used the pistols we found to shoot a test shot at the warehouse of the Nippon Refrigeration Company at Gojo 37-chome, Kita Gojo in the urban area. "As a result of the bullet test, it was found that the bullets recovered from Hatakeyama's house were exactly the same as those used to shoot Shiratori. After this was found out, Tetsu Yoshida's prosecution was withdrawn. "More than two years later, the authorities said that they found the bullets fired by the so-called 'core self-defense force' in the autumn of Showa 26 from the deep mountains of Horomi-ling-in fact, this was in the warehouse of the Japan Refrigeration Company. The bullets fired during the test firing. "There is another thing: that year on May 1 International Labor Day, they planned to set fire to the Moiwa police station in Sapporo and kill the police. A partner accidentally leaked this plan and let the Central Police Station know. The police In a panic, he immediately reported to Prosecutor Takagi, and Takagi was hooked to a certain party. One minute before the execution of the arson plan, a certain party issued an order to stop the execution, and the plan was aborted. "Sato died shortly after he was released on bail. I remember it was around October. The authorities only performed a formal autopsy and treated it as a suicide by poisoning; somehow, there was no autopsy. "Who is the real culprit of the 'Shiratori Incident' is actually clear, so there is no need to say it. The authorities are just deliberately distorting the facts in an attempt to use this incident to engage in political conspiracy. "I am not entrusted by anyone, I am just fighting for the truth to be revealed to the world." The above is the summary of "Harada Intelligence". The content of "Harada Intelligence" is very interesting.This information can also be said to complicate the "White Bird Incident".This point is left for later.

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