In a room of the Tokyo District Court I told my name, age, address and occupation as I was asked. “The prosecutor requested for further detention. I’ll read your suspicion,” said the judge. What he read was the same in content as the one the police officers said in their interrogation on the first day and the prosecutor said yesterday. Of course I knew nothing about what they said.
“Is there any mistake in terms of these facts?”
“Yes, all are mistake.”
I explained. I thought a judge could understand me. I was praying in my mind.
The judge rubber-stamped, saying, “Extension of detention period for 10 days more.”
“Why?” The strength drained out of me.
20 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.