Chapter 61 Section IX

Here we also need to consider the matter of Sato Hideaki, chairman of the Sapporo Credit Cooperative, mentioned in the so-called "Harada Qingji".According to Harada, Sato has a very eccentric personality and often injects Philoben.He is insidious - for example, recording the conversation of the visitor, analyzing it after the event, and so on.He was also said to be a psychosexual, and he also suffered from the persecution-like symptoms common to philopenophiles. According to Harada, Sato also held some kind of obscene exhibition, which made him popular among the famous people in Sapporo.Harada also said that he used his position as chairman of the board to illegally obtain loans and embezzle public funds.Harada was originally an employee of the Sapporo Credit Union, so in this regard, his words are probably trustworthy to a certain extent.

It is impossible to find out where the money Sato illegally lent and the embezzled public funds were used for.According to Harada, Sato allowed the local gangs to freely enter and leave his house and act as their backstage. Why does Sato want to side with the gang?The reason is not quite clear. Judging from the fact that the guys from the "Counter-Espionage Team" are always traveling around in the car of the Sapporo Credit Union, they probably have some kind of connection with Sato on weekdays. After the incident, Sato was arrested and detained at the North Police Station. He once said: "I will tell you in two or three days." He attempted suicide that night.He was later moved to a detention center, and ten lawyers came forward to release him on bail, but he committed suicide by swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills soon after.

What is the reason for Sato's suicide?Did he commit suicide, as people say, because he was distressed because his illegal loans and embezzlement were exposed, which would cause him to lose his social status? "Harada Intelligence" said: "He is the culprit of the 'Shiratori Incident', he encouraged the gangster A who had committed a murder with a pistol to shoot and kill the Shiratori Police Department", and believed that he was "because it was about to be revealed. , committed suicide." A used to participate in gang fights somewhere in Tokyo, and beat the opponent's leader to death with his hand.He has also been a competitive cyclist and is said to ride very well.As expected, the eyewitness said something like this: "The man who looks like the murderer ran away with his waist flattened on a bicycle." Everyone knows that bicycle racers always keep their waists flat when riding a bicycle at full speed.

On the one hand, he has killed people, and on the other hand, he has such professional habits. It seems that the prisoner is indeed like A. It seems that he can agree with Harada's statement.Although "Harada Information" stated that "A was able to commit the murder because Hideaki Sato entrusted A to shoot Shiratori", it cannot be concluded that Sato did not also entrust others to shoot Shiratori. Why did Sato raise a violent gang?It is said that he has a unique personality, but is it just because of his unusual personality that he raises a gang?Otherwise, what is his actual purpose?

Here one is reminiscent of the gangs of pistol-toting bandits who broke into Communist Party offices in Sapporo and elsewhere in Hokkaido.Groups of more than 20 robbers tied up the person on duty and robbed documents and money.Communist Party offices in Sapporo were attacked three times in succession.Although the police were called, the police ignored them.Later, because the Communist Party protested and the citizens criticized them, the police could no longer ignore them and arrested five or six people, but they were all hooligans. The Communist Party said that the robbery was carried out by local right-wing elements hired by the "counterintelligence team" at the time.This incident of allowing robbers to invade private houses was actually planned to obtain the Communist Party documents placed in the office.But the authorities stopped short of tracing the actual background.No, maybe the police are afraid to touch it, because maybe it's part of the work of the local "counterintelligence team".

From this point of view, if Hideaki Sato supports the right wing and has a close relationship with the low-level agents of the "counterintelligence team", we can see some signs.It is said that Chairman Sato has embezzled public funds from the Sapporo Credit Union and lent them illegally.But where did the money go?The actual situation is unclear.Maybe it was used as expenses for these two aspects.There are still examples like this: A certain well-known bank was blackmailed by low-level agents of the "counterintelligence team" in the past, and the deficit has not yet been made up.

The budget of the "counterintelligence team" itself is not generous.This is very different from the fact that the Japanese military department did not announce the so-called military secret fee before the war.Therefore, these agencies act on the basis of the policy of raising funds locally.Especially the low-level secret service personnel, it seems that most of them do anything wrong. At first, these agents probably spied on Hideaki Sato's illegal activities, so they blackmailed him at the cost of not exposing him? However, there are signs that under the domination of the idea of ​​promotion, the Shiratori Police Department intends to expose Sato Hideaki's illegal acts.Shiratori was once credited with exposing the illegal behavior of the Hokkaido Takushuku Bank.

Shiratori's intelligence work has already achieved considerable results, but people have never fully understood the extent to which he has achieved it.After his death, the city police authorities knew nothing about the situation of the Communist Party. From this point, it can be seen that Shiratori was probably an important figure both to the Japanese security organs and to the "counterintelligence team". But in order to collect security information, it is necessary to strengthen contact with smugglers.As a result of the investigation by Section Chief Shiratori, it was discovered that Hideaki Sato was doing this.At first, Shiratori just warned Sato and his gang.Probably as the contact and investigation progressed, he became more and more aware that Sato provided funds to the "counter-espionage team", advanced funds for the key members of the "counter-espionage team", and introduced him to places where he visited, etc. Activities against the Communist Party.At this time, he probably finally considered exercising his power decisively and exposing Sato and his group.But Shiratori was too careless, he didn't know how close the relationship between Sato and the "counterintelligence team" agents was.He understands the part, but not the whole.This is the tragedy of the Shiratori Police Department.

On the one hand, the Shiratori Police Department collected information on the Japanese Communist Party, and on the other hand, it was responsible for managing the morals of Mangye (then Yeyou District), and he was quite popular in that area.He seems to have gotten information from that as well.In addition, he also held an important job; looking for hostesses for the US General Command personnel from Tokyo.Those so-called "big men" who come from Tokyo to Hokkaido must hunt bears every winter.They are looking for a "traveling companion", and it is said that the job of pimping falls on the head of the White Bird Police Department.Probably this kind of waitress was specially "recruited" from Mangno, but those poor people who were forced to accompany the Americans were just ravaged in vain and couldn't get the corresponding reward. I heard that both the boss and the waitress took Shiratori Hate it to the bone.However, people who do this kind of business are afraid of the police. If they disobey Shiratori's orders, they don't know what kind of retaliation they will suffer afterwards (for example, they will never be notified in advance that the police will come to conduct spot checks).Therefore, they probably have no choice but to let Shiratori at the mercy of them.In addition, it is also worth noting that the violent gangs have a close relationship with these flower streets and willow alleys.

On the day of the incident, Shiratori had been to the bar "Purple Wave".This shows that he often goes to "Purple Waves".This is the place where he often stays when he is doing investigative work, and it is also the contact point of the "counterintelligence team"-the headquarters of the "counterintelligence team" is in the "Grand Hotel" in Sapporo. The office of the Japanese Communist Party is near the bar "Purple Wave". I think that, as the Japanese Communist Party accused, the robbers broke in and robbed the documents.The White Bird Police Department must know these inside stories.

The main task of the Private Publishing Censorship Department in Sapporo at that time was to censor publications and newspapers, first of all the organ newspapers of the Communist Party.The head of the Private Publishing Review Department is the second king named Gott (civilian), and he is very close to the captain of the "counterintelligence team" Ping Tian.It is said that they have a close relationship, and every night they are not in this house or in that house to discuss work while playing bridge.Shiratori Police Department and Hatakeyama of the Sapporo City Police Department also come to the Private Publishing Review Department three or four times a week unexpectedly, and discuss business in Gert's room.It is said that the White Bird Police Department always keeps a straight face and never shows a smile.It was also the private publishing inspection department that suddenly attacked the Japanese Communist Party’s propaganda station in Yuanshan and Miaosui. The Japanese police were not accompanying them. It is estimated that members of the “counterintelligence team” participated in the search. The sergeant Mukai mentioned in the "Equal Testimony" is also a Second Emperor, and he is the backbone of the "counterintelligence team".It is said that he was also responsible for checking and accepting the supplies of the occupying forces unloaded at Otaru Port. However, at that time, a large number of supplies of the occupying forces were stolen and sold on the black market in Otaru City.It is estimated that members of the "counterintelligence team" ordered North Korean black-market businessmen to do it in order to obtain travel expenses.The scale of this kind of theft became bigger and bigger. There was also such a thing: once when the railway branch line of Otaru Port was loading trucks one after another, several trucks of goods were stolen and sold together with the wagons. Most of the people who do this kind of thing are the Second Emperor, and it is said that the worst character is also the Second Emperor.The White Bird Police Department probably also had feuds with some members of the "counterintelligence team".The reason was that due to the bad discipline, it was said that the leaders of the occupying forces would secretly order him to expose the behavior of bad elements in the "counterintelligence team". If this is indeed the case, then since the II members of the "counter-espionage team" and the violent gang were also colluding with each other in stealing and selling military supplies, it can be deduced that the members of the "counter-espionage team" who were targeted by Shiratori may have instigated The gang shot and killed Shiratori.According to rumors, A, who appeared in the aforementioned "Harada Intelligence", is also connected with the "counterintelligence team". As I write this, I have to be cautious in my reasoning.The rash practice of wild guessing cannot be tolerated.Of course, I can't say who actually shot the police department of Shiratori. However, according to the current situation, the following two points can probably be said. One point is the sound of pistols.As I have said before, there are two kinds of testimony: one says that I heard one, and the other says that I heard two.Those who hear it think the sound is very soft.As I said at the beginning of my article, the sound of the Browning pistol is much louder, most likely a roar that shakes the heart. The sound sounds very light, could it be because that pistol has a special silencer?It is said that only the Browning pistol used by the US military had such a device at that time. Besides, when the two bicycles were traveling along the Nanliutiao snow trail, an eyewitness said: "One of the people (referring to the murderer) said something to the other person (Shiratori)." He also said, like The person who was Shiratori was "very pale". Maybe the criminal threatened Shiratori before committing the crime, so Shiratori's face became pale, right?But he may have half-believed the threat, and then the half-belief happened, and in a split second he was shot through the back and on the road.Maybe that's the case. If it had been a well-planned conspiracy, no one who knew Shiratori would have been involved in shooting Shiratori.The murderer was probably someone who had never met Shiratori, but somehow recognized that it was Shiratori. For example, it is conceivable that someone told him that it was a white bird, so he approached the white bird that was riding a bicycle, first asked "Are you Mr. White Bird?", and then acted fiercely.Perhaps he had secretly disposed of the pistol that would have been the evidence, and taken the bicycle apart, doused it with petrol and burned it.But the above is just my speculation, without any basis. If the prisoner is a hooligan under Sato, he is no ordinary violent person. "Harada Intelligence" mentioned the name of a person who was disbanded from the Black Dragon Society. I guess it is not such a person, but a Japanese who has undergone formal shooting training in some way.Such organizations and key elements are lurking, and this is shooting while riding a bicycle. In short, although the distance was very close, judging from the fact that Shiratori was killed with a single shot, the person who did it was probably a person with excellent marksmanship.Members of the so-called "Core Self-Defense Forces" who fired only one shot each on Horomi Ridge never had such skills.It seems that it can also be asserted that it will not be Hiroshi Sato, who has not even participated in the shooting drills in Horomi Ridge. So why did Hiroshi Sato sneak into the ground?If, as the procuratorial authorities said, he was protected by the Japanese Communist Party and sent by the People's Fleet to escape abroad by sea, then why did the Japanese Communist Party do this again?Everyone would have thought that if he hadn't committed the crime, he should have gone to court to defend himself openly. However, this is just an outsider's idea. If we consider the defendant's situation in this incident according to the actual situation, maybe this point is impossible. The "White Bird Incident" is different from the "Downhill Incident" and so on. It is not a planned conspiracy that was arranged from the beginning, but half of it happened by accident.However, even before the incident, the atmosphere was created that it would not be surprising that the underground organization of the Japanese Communist Party committed such a crime.On the one hand, it can be said that this atmosphere was caused by the "outside" activities in the Japanese Communist Party, and on the other hand, it also grew within the party. The case of shooting Shiratori happened by accident, but its background was prepared long ago.Even if it is used as "the work of the Japanese Communist Party", the public opinion circle will not find it strange.This is not only the case with the "Shiratori Incident", but if another completely different and shocking incident happened, the result would also become "the work of the Communist Party in Sapporo". Such a background is always ready.Look, after the "Shiratori Incident", hasn't the underground organization of the Japanese Communist Party in the Sapporo area, which is the most powerful in Hokkaido and forms the center of Hokkaido, been completely destroyed?Isn't this exactly what the people who created the "White Bird Incident" wanted to achieve?

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