“I have been here for 3 days. Today is the last day because the police officer said to me that I should stay for 2 or 3 days.” I really hoped my detention would be over today. I wanted to return to my normal life. “Today I’m going to see the judge. A judge must be a person of sound judgment. So, the judge will accept my claim that I did nothing criminal. Then I can get home.” This is what I thought then.
I was taken to the court. Like the previous day, I went there in a black-colored car. The officer in charge of the cell and a vice head officer went with me. Now I come to think of it, we were going to the Tokyo District Court. We waited for the judge in the stateroom. I saw a poster on the wall that read “We can assign a defense counsel for you.” However, at that time, I didn’t know what the “defense counsel” was and what they did. I asked the officer who came to the court with me, and he answered me in a polite way.
I was called out, and then I went into another room. It was a small room. There were two men sitting already. “Please take a seat,” said a man in a black coat.
19 Mar. 2008
Keihin-Tohoku line
I used to drive
About Me
- oguro
- I am a 34 year-old man of Tokyo birth. After finishing schools in Saitama, at the age of 18 I was employed by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). I worked for the Company as a station staff, a conductor and a driver. My hobby is playing basketball. If I catch a cold, I can recover from my disease by reading “Slam-dunk” (popular comics on basketball). The most favorite scene is in Vol. 31. Of course I also take a medicine. On holidays from work, I play with my kids. I am a normal citizen. However, I was arrested and detained for 344 days at the age of 29. In the jail cell next door a secretary of the Foreign Ministry who had been suspended from his job because of indictment was also detained. I associate with him now.