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"The Continuous Disappearance of Ashikaga Girls" Author: [Japan] Shimizu Kiyoshi Publisher: Wenhui Publishing House Douban 2022 Annual Social Documentary Book
"The Continuous Disappearance of Ashikaga Girls" Author: [Japan] Shimizu Kiyoshi Publisher: Wenhui Publishing House Douban 2022 Annual Social Documentary Book
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Publisher: New Classic Culture Original title: The Murderer's Murderer - The Kidnapping and Murder of a Young Girl in Northern Kanto Translator: Zeng Yuting Year of Publication: 2022-7
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The serial killer of child girls is still out there, and you are brushing shoulders with the murderer!
★Another highly acclaimed and topical masterpiece by the author Kiyoshi Shimizu of "The Okegawa Stalker Murder Case"!
☆ Kiyoshi Shimizu's representative work of "mystery reversal" documentary reporting, the Japanese version of "Memories of Murder".
☆ A book "rewrites" reality - a 17-year-old wrongful case was retried and the wrongly accused was acquitted.
☆ Listen to the faint voices, expose the dark side of Japanese justice, uncover the fallacies of scientific investigation, and tell the victims' unspoken pain.
★A complete record of the "Ashikaga Incident", a missing girl case that shook Japan!
☆ Directly address social pain points such as child abduction, women’s safety, wrongful convictions, victim guilt, investigation scandals, and controversial media reports!
☆ Go to the crime scene in person, restore the details of the case, and stop 17 years of wrongful imprisonment...an investigative report that shook Japan!
★ Won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, the Shincho Documentary Award, was nominated for the Soichi Oyaya Nonfiction Award, and was named the Best Book of the Year by Kinokuniya Bookstore!
☆ A must-read documentary report on Japan, and a non-fiction literature on par with "Black Box" and "The Elementary School Beneath the Giant Wave".
☆ The report is well-written and includes 14 pictures, reproducing the entire process of case investigation... It is known as the "Bible of investigative reporting"!
★ The story is interesting! Emotionally shocking! Very strong aftertaste! Every reader is a witness to the truth!
"Thirty years have passed, and we were suddenly told that this was a wrongful case, and the real murderer has escaped legal punishment due to the statute of limitations. Are we going to let him get away with it?" - Fukushima Joe | Father of the murdered girl
"I have endured for seventeen years and hope the police can apologize to me. Can a simple "mistake" be enough to make it go away? I want them to give my life back to me." - Toshikazu Sugaya | The innocent victim of the Ashikaga Incident
"I should listen to the voices of those little girls in heaven. I want to turn the tables on Othello and make the truth known to the world." - Kiyoshi Shimizu | Investigative reporter
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In 1979, a five-year-old girl named Maya Fukushima disappeared in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture.
In 1984, a five-year-old girl named Hasebe Yumi disappeared in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture.
In 1987, eight-year-old girl Tomoko Osawa disappeared in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture.
In 1990, a four-year-old girl named Matsuda Makoto disappeared in Ashikaga City, Tochigi Prefecture.
The four cases actually occurred in the same area, located at the border of Tochigi and Gunma prefectures in Japan. However, the Tochigi police only handle cases in Tochigi, and the Gunma police only handle cases in Gunma.
In 1991, the Tochigi prefectural police arrested a man they believed was the murderer of three cases in the prefecture while investigating Matsuda's disappearance. The police held a press conference and the media reported on the case one after another, making the public believe that the serial child murder case had been completely solved and the murderer had been arrested and imprisoned.
In 1996, in Ota City, Gunma Prefecture, four-year-old Yukari Yokoyama disappeared again.
Reporter Kiyoshi Shimizu noticed the connection between this series of events.
In 2007, he returned to the scene of the incident. Faced with the DNA type identification conclusion that was generally believed to be extremely accurate, faced with the police's many years of proud achievements in handling the case, and faced with an ironclad case that was about to exceed the statute of limitations, he loudly and firmly questioned it.
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I was blown away by this book. I have never read such a powerful piece of nonfiction, and I have nothing but admiration for the author's strong reporting skills.
—— Yusuke Kishi, judge of the Mystery Writers Association of Japan Awards
Mr. Shimizu is a famous journalist who has interviewed and reported on major cases such as the "Okegawa stalker murder case" and the "Ashikaga incident", and has released many exclusive features that overturned the conclusions of the police and prosecutors' investigations.
——Shiori Ito's comments on Kiyoshi Shimizu in "Black Box"
The Bible of investigative reporting - this is the most appropriate description I think after reading this book.
——Hiroshi Makino, a famous Japanese investigative journalist
About the Author
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A famous Japanese investigative journalist.
Born in Tokyo in 1958, he worked for Shinchosha's "FOCUS" magazine and is currently a reporter and commentator for Nippon Television and a part-time lecturer at Waseda University's Graduate School of Journalism. Since becoming a reporter, he has been committed to investigative reporting centered on cases and accidents, listening to the weak voices.
His representative works include "The Ashikaga Girls' Serial Disappearance Case" and "The Okegawa Stalker Murder Case". He has won the Japan Journalists Conference (JCJ) Award, the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award, and the Shincho Documentary Award.
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