Chapter 58 Section VI

What formed the background of the "Shiratori Incident" was the "military struggle" strategy of the Japanese Communist Party at that time.Prosecutors said that after the Fifth National Congress, the Japanese Communist Party issued an order to each region to organize so-called military committees, select active party members from among them, and establish the so-called "core self-defense force." The Japanese Communist Party refuted that this was nonsense.The so-called military struggle and "core self-defense force" are nothing but fabricated things wantonly fabricated by those in power.

However, after the Fifth National Congress, the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party ordered the launch of the so-called military struggle, which is probably close to the truth.At the Sixth National Congress, this was criticized as an overreach of "'Left' adventurism". In order to fight in the public trial and for various other reasons, the Communist Party today denies the military organization; however, in the "Shiratori Incident", this series of backgrounds constituted strong evidence of the situation for the prosecutorial authorities. In the judgment of the first instance, the fundamental motive for the defendant's actions was mentioned as follows:

"Defendant Kuniji Murakami organized the 'Core Self-Defense Force' based on the so-called military policy, collected Browning pistols and other weapons, and directed the so-called 'Red Light Incident' and other activities..." The inquest into the incident and the actual crimes followed immediately in the verdict—everything was based on that. The reason why the truth of the "Shiratori incident" is difficult to find out is precisely because its background is related to political ideology, and it also involves the public security authorities and the Japanese Communist Party. murder case to solve.This makes it different from such a simple homicide that can be used as general social news material.This is a complex political case.

But what the world calls the flame bottle struggle, and pamphlets said to have been issued by the Japanese Communist Party—"Bulb Cultivation Method" and "Nutrition Menu" about the chemical preparation of explosives such as flame bottles and hand grenades—had been organized at the grassroots level. It is also well known. Moreover, it is now well known that the Japanese Communist Party's self-criticism about "'Left' adventurism" after the Sixth National Congress refers to precisely this kind of military struggle. In any case, the most important conditional evidence for the accused in the "Shiratori incident" to be recognized by the prosecutors as the real culprit is probably the "existence of the military committee and the 'core self-defense force'."

Let's take a look at the character of Kazuo Shiratori, who is said to have suppressed the Communist Party in Sapporo.At that time, the Shiratori Police Department was serving as the chief of the security section, the person in charge of collecting intelligence on the Japanese Communist Party and formulating measures to deal with the Japanese Communist Party.In a word, in terms of personality, he is very enthusiastic about his work, and he is also a person who likes to keep secrets alone. Members of the Sapporo Committee of the Japanese Communist Party followed Shiratori and monitored his movements, but they could not figure out where he went anyway.The section chief usually goes home around seven o'clock in the evening.He doesn't take the tram, and always runs around on his bicycle.That's all there is to know.The man was riding a bicycle, and these members of the committee did not have bicycles, so they could not nail him, so they had to give up.Because of this, even though all the members had monitored the Shiratori Police Department for several days, they finally gave up the idea.

Not only the Japanese Communist Party, but even the Sapporo Central Police Station where Shiratori worked was not very aware of Shiratori's actions.There is also the fact that no one knows what kind of investigation Shiratori did during his lifetime. After his death, no one knows the details.Therefore, the Municipal Police Department does not understand the current situation of the Japanese Communist Party and feels very embarrassed. Shiratori is the person the Japanese Communist Party hates the most.The Japanese Communist Party sent him threatening letters, or tracked and monitored his actions.This also shows that he has done a good job.But he didn't even disclose the content of his work to the members of the security department. This is probably because he adopted an extremely thorough independent investigation principle.Currently doing investigative work does not adopt the so-called independent investigation.The modern investigation method is the so-called comprehensive investigation, which is carried out by all teams working together.Shiratori adopted the old method, the investigative method often used by the so-called policemen.But Shiratori's duty is not to investigate simple robbers or murderers, but his target is the Communist Party.It is estimated that he obtained the information in an extremely secret way, so it is not surprising that he carried out secret activities alone.However, it is a strange thing that none of the results of his inquiries and investigations survived in Kone.

Just as the members of the Japanese Communist Party did not understand Shiratori's actions when they followed him before, the City Police Department did not know much about Shiratori's actions.In fact, on the day of Shiratori's death, no one knew about it until he left the Central Police Station at five o'clock in the afternoon.But from then until he turned into a dead body and was discovered on the scene, the police department was completely clueless about his actions during the two hours.Of course, even though the investigative headquarters knew about it, they deliberately said they didn't know because they couldn't publish it—it doesn't matter if you look at it this way.

However, Shiratori's actions on the afternoon of the murder were recorded in the publicly released trial records.According to this record, he only showed up at the police station that afternoon, then went to the "Zi Lang" bar in the south of the city's Sijo 4-chome, and then went to two brothels. Precisely because Shiratori had worked in the Disciplinary Unit, he probably had a good time among those who did this kind of work. The "White Bird Incident" published by the "'Shiratori Incident' Countermeasures Committee" says this: "According to the testimony given by the prosecutors when they investigated the bosses, proprietresses, and prostitutes in the brothel, it seems that the chief of the security department went to the brothel after leaving the police station. He was with someone at a certain time every day. We met outside the police station. It can also be estimated that the meeting locations were several kilns.

"'Purple Wave' is one of the meeting places. It's a bar, not a kiln. But according to the proprietor, trainee cooks and cleaning women who told the prosecutor, Shiratori came here almost every day. He always quietly Come in through the back door and go to the second floor to take a rest; sometimes store your bicycle here, and sometimes ride it away. According to the testimony of the bar owner and others, it can be inferred that Shiratori went to make an appointment with someone after leaving "Purple Waves" The kiln has gone. "It can be seen that after Shiratori left the police station, he did not go to the meeting place immediately, but took the cautious approach of going to the 'Purple Wave' first, and then going to the appointment from there. Why should he be so cautious in his actions? Since It has nothing to do with taste, just saying that there are members of the Japanese Communist Party following behind, I am afraid it is not enough to explain it?"

Here it is reminiscent of the fact that Gang Jin (Min Byung-il), a Korean in this incident, swallowed a large amount of sleeping pills and died very strangely.He is the boss of the Lion Cafe.It makes people get the impression that prostitution can be seen everywhere in the "White Bird Incident".It should also be taken into account that people who do this kind of business are generally in collusion with violent gangs. In short, it may be considered that the Shiratori police department is very capable and ambitious.His actions seem inexplicable, probably because he personally went out to collect secret information.This kind of ambition is inseparable from the idea of ​​promotion.Shiratori probably had the information from the Japanese Communist Party, but he did not leave it to the Central Police Department to which he belonged. He must have firmly grasped the information by himself, but he did not communicate with the police station.

But it was not expected that Shiratori had kept this information alone.Maybe his idea of ​​promotion is not related to the city police, but directly to the national police?In other words, it seems possible to speculate that he did not provide information to the city police to which he belonged, but directly to the national police. Needless to say, the city police, the national police want to know the information of the Japanese Communist Party.As long as you think about the situation in Hokkaido at that time, you can understand how much the national police are interested in this aspect. Regarding the speculation that Shiratori once provided the information collected by himself to the national police, it seems to be proved by the example mentioned above: Although the national police had obtained the information about "Otokawa" a long time ago, they have not notified the investigation for a long time headquarters.Can this be seen as a combination of the secrecy of the National Police and the promotion of the Shiratori Police Department? At that time, the National Police concentrated all its strength on the security of Hokkaido, where the situation was tense.Not only Japan, but even the American "counterintelligence team" sent capable members to Hokkaido at that time.At that time, the Korean War had just ended, and the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and China were in a very tense period. I would like to analyze here the crime of the so-called real murderer, Hiroshi Sato, who shot Shiratori. First of all, there is no objective evidence that Hiroshi Sato shot and killed the police department of Shiratori.Only Chaping Yongjia mentioned this matter in his testimony.But that was not what Hiroshi Sato confessed directly to the authorities, nor did he hear it from a third party other than Tie Ting, and of course there is no physical evidence to speak of.Based on this, the defender believes that the tied testimony is the so-called indirect testimony, that is, hearsay testimony, which is not sufficient. As mentioned at the beginning of my article, according to Taihei's testimony, this is what he heard from Sato Hiroshi when he went to Sato Hiroshi's house.Based on this, it can be concluded that Hiroshi Sato is the real murderer. Taiping also wrote that Murakami was not surprised when Hiroshi Sato reported the matter to Murakami.But Murakami himself completely denied this. Authorities arrested people based solely on hearsay testimony, similar to the Matsukawa incident. Let’s analyze the content of this event a little more.Readers who read the above quotations will recall the words of the eyewitnesses that appeared at the beginning of this article.One testimonial stated that the pistol "bang twice" and another said it "bang once".In fact, the eyewitnesses’ statements at that time can be divided into two versions: “twice beeps” and “only one beep”, and both of them said it was “cracking like a firecracker”. . But it was a Browning pistol.The sound of the Browning pistol is by no means bang bang, but louder and shocking.It's hard to describe it in words, but if I can barely find two words, it's a sound like "嗞一咚", it's definitely not a light and crisp sound like a pop. Then, why are there different sayings that the gunshot was fired twice and that it was fired only once?I'm inclined to think that the killer fired only one bullet in the first place, and it did a brilliant job of hitting Police Department Shiratori in the back, breaking his artery and killing him. why?Because of the results of examining the body of the Shiratori Police Department, it has been speculated that the murderer shot from a very close range—estimated to be about one meter away.In fact, the back of Shiratori's coat was still stained with gunpowder smoke; if it weren't for the extremely close distance, it would not have been stained with gunpowder smoke.Since the distance was so close, and one shot accurately pierced his artery, if two shots were fired, even if one shot missed, there would probably be a little smoke stain on the back of the coat.That is to say, in addition to the smoke trace of the bullet that hit, there should also be the smoke trace of the bullet that did not hit.However, there is no trace at all. Secondly, as a result of searching the scene, the missing bullet was never found, and there was only one bullet casing on the ground, which seemed to prove that the murderer only fired one shot.If two shots were fired, of course there should be two bullet casings on the scene. From here, things start to get interesting. The newspapers that were the first to report the incident at the time accepted the eyewitness account of two shots and reported that there was a double bang and that the killer fired twice. Hiroshi Sato may have read about the case in the newspaper before he told Taiping that he had fired twice.That is to say, because this is the testimony of tying, it can also be said that tying himself read the report in the newspaper, so he said that "two shots" were fired. Katsuhiro Sakamoto (one of the witnesses) stated in the prosecution record: "I heard two. There was only a split second between the first bang and the second—about a fifth or a tenth of a second." However, in the confession records of other witnesses, there are many who say they only heard one sound.This was not mentioned in the initial news reports following the incident. If Hiroshi Sato read the newspaper and told Taiping that he fired two shots, then it is inconsistent with the fact that only one bullet casing fell at the scene.Therefore, we have to make a fuss about the casing of that bullet.So the idea came up: Jean Tieping stated in his confession based on circumstantial hearsay that the pistol was wrapped in a handkerchief.The original text is as follows: "I mentioned the cartridge case and asked him: 'What's the matter?' 'How many shots did you fire?' Bo said: 'I pulled the trigger, but only one shot.' 'The other cartridge case was left in the The pistol was wrapped in the towel (maybe he said the cloth).' I asked him: 'Will the shell cover it?' I remember he also said: 'It should have been fired with a bang.'” This passage is to explain, because the pistol is wrapped in a towel or cloth, and one cartridge case fell on the ground, and the other was wrapped in the towel. But the second bullet was fired not after a while, but, as the Sakamoto witness said, almost immediately afterward, only a fifth or a tenth of a second apart.It was therefore impossible to conceive of one cartridge falling off while the other was wrapped in a handkerchief.Besides, why did Hiroshi Sato wrap the pistol in a towel on purpose, which made it inconvenient for shooting? This was not mentioned in the confession, so we have to speculate.He probably meant to say that the pistol was wrapped in a handkerchief in order not to attract attention.But in a crime of such audacity, it did not sound natural to simply hide the pistol from sight.What's more, it was done at 7:30 in the afternoon after dark. If it was wrapped in a white towel, it would be more conspicuous.It is easier to hide in the dark by exposing the black gun body naked.And it's wrapped in a hand towel, as if deliberately inconveniencing yourself when pulling the trigger. The statement about the hand towel can only be considered as a sleight of hand to resolve this contradiction because only one bullet casing fell on the scene, but two shots were fired in the confession. As mentioned above, I also have my own views on gunshots, which will be discussed later. In fact, only one shot was fired, but it was said that two shots were fired-this kind of testimony is used to substantiate this lie.If, as the defender asserts, the equalizing testimony is based on hearsay and fabricated by him at the same time, then all the above can only be said to be equalizing fictions.

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