No. 16 “Kakumaru”?

I answered immediately. “No. I’m not a member.”

I knew the word, “Kakumaru.” I knew the slander which said that JREU had many Kakumaru members. So, in the workplace, union members often said in fun like “JREU is Kakumaru,” or “You are Kakumaru.”
But these were only jokes. We could say “Kakumaru” just because we had no connection with it. We played a joke using this word. Listening to the prosecutor’s question, I felt curious. He asked me, in a grave appearance, “Are you a member?” Of course I had never said that I was a member of it.

The prosecutor asked me some questions, looking at the paper where my suspicion was written. There were 15 stories on it, and I was allegedly got involved in the seven of them. I responded confidently as “No” or “I don’t remember what you say.” From the very beginning, all were suspicions of which I knew nothing. So, I explained what I did. I believed that he could understand me. I said “I don’t remember” on the parts I forgot. I couldn’t remember what happened more than one year earlier.
After questioning, the prosecutor wrote a document and showed it to me. In terms of content, as a whole, he wrote as I denied what the prosecutor asked to me. I signed my name and sealed the document with a thumbprint.

The prosecutor said, “You are going to the Court tomorrow.” I felt relieved to hear that. “Tomorrow will be the last day. I can go back home,” I thought.

16 Mar. 2008