Jailed in China (Pt. 3): Singing silently to retain hope amid long detention for 'spying' November 12, 2022 (Mainichi Japan) Japanese version Hideji Suzuki explains the layout of room 502, where he was detained, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 20, 2022. In July 2016, Hideji Suzuki
ブランドコピー最高N級 the director of a Japan-China youth exchange association, was detained by the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the body tasked with cracking down on espionage, and he remained incarcerated in China for years. In the interrogation facility where he was first taken, the curtain remained shut and he couldn't look out the window
スーパーコピー靴 so he had no sense of the seasons. Investigations by the three interrogators continued at this facility. The one sitting in the middle had demanded that Suzuki call him "laoshi" (teacher). One day
ブランドコピー品 the man sitting to the right of this interrogator broke his usual silence. "I've met you once before. Don't you remember?" he asked. The man appeared to be aged around 30. He had dark skin and beady eyes, and his hair was swept back. Suzuki had seen him somewhere. "Ah!" he inadvertently exclaimed as he remembered. Suzuki had met the man when he visited the city of Jinzhou in China's Liaoning province for tree-planting activities. Suzuki was heading a visiting delegation at the time, and this man had volunteered to carry Suzuki's bag. The tree planting was part of the green development exchange activities that had started based on an agreement during Japan-China summit talks held in Beijing in 1999. The Japan-China youth exchange association that Suzuki headed was receiving aid from the Japanese government. Suzuki had never imagined that China's Ministry of State Security would go as far as to monitor the scene of friendly activities that had started at the behest of the leaders of the two countries. After this, Suzuki remained in the dim hotel, being led back and forth between interrogation room 504 and room 502, where he was staying. At times when he found his detention hard, in his mind he sang Sayuri Ishikawa's hit song "Tsugaru Kaikyo Fuyugeshiki" (Tsugaru Strait winter scene), as singing out loud was forbidden. The interrogator going by the name of "teacher" kept asking Suzuki about his contact with the high-ranking Chinese government official and Japanese people, and was particularly persistent when it came to research in Japan on China. The interrogator gave the name of a research project in which a number of prominent Japanese researchers had participated in several years before, and demanded, "What kind of research are they doing?" This research, conducted with assistance from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, was examining the process by which the Chinese government made policy decisions, among other matters. Suzuki responded, "I've heard about this research, but I don't know any of the details." The interrogator unsettled Suzuki with his response: "Research on China is not needed. Scholars and the like are really no good." One day, after Suzuki was led into room 504 like normal, a man he had never met before was sitting in the usual interrogator's seat dressed neatly in a uniform. Next to him was a young woman with surprisingly beautiful facial features. The uniformed man told Suzuki, "We'll be taking over the investigation from tomorrow." The following morning an eye mask was placed on Suzuki and he was moved to what appeared to be a different building within the same facility. When he entered the underground interrogation room, the uniformed man and woman from the day before were there. Suzuki was formally arrested on suspicion of espionage, and he was informed that the date was Feb. 16, 2017. His 60th birthday, normally celebrated as a special occasion in Japan, had already passed. Hideji Suzuki is pictured in December 2015
ブランドコピー激安 before his detention by Chinese authorities, in this picture he provided. The new building was reserved for suspected spies and terrorists. The people held in the same room as Suzuki were switched about on a regular basis, probably to prevent them from becoming friendly with each other. There were normally two or three others held in the same room as Suzuki. He was thrilled to have other people to talk to after such a long time. And thankfully there was no heavy curtain over the window like before, so he was able to see the winter sun peeking through the clouds. The human psyche is a strange thing. There was no change to the fact that Suzuki was incarcerated, but he felt as if he were in a much better place. The surveillance agents came only once in a while. He sang Sayuri Ishikawa's songs to his heart's content, and even taught them to a Chinese person at the facility who had been arrested in Russia. After his arrest, the interrogation sessions became less frequent. He was shown a confession statement admitting to spying, and a man in a suit ordered him, "Sign it. You're not allowed to refuse." Suzuki reluctantly put his name on the document, and he was charged in May 2017. One young university student from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who had been taken to the facility of suspicion of being a "terrorist" disappeared after just two nights at the facility. There were a wide range of people who came and went. A former Supreme Court justice Suzuki met taught him about Chinese law. Of particular interest to him was the explanation regarding state secrets. The former justice told him, "The National Administration of State Secrets Protection determines which of the four levels the information falls under among 'information,' 'secret,' 'confidential' and 'top secret.' If there are four pieces of information it is secret, if there are four pieces of secret information it is confidential, and if there are four pieces of confidential information it is top secret." Suzuki was arrested over what authorities deemed "information" -- the least sensitive category. If it had been categorized as confidential or top secret, he could have faced life imprisonment or even the death penalty. Most of the people put in with Suzuki were accused of far heavier "crimes" than him, but they talked lightly about them
ブランドコピー 安全なサイト as if they had gotten over them. This detention center had a special "VIP room." It was after he had been detained at this center for a while that Suzuki heard about this room from another detainee. (This is Part 3 of a four-part series. The final part will be published at 7 a.m. on Nov. 14.) (Japanese original by Mainichi Shimbun imprisoned Japanese nationals reporting team) Font Size SML Print Go to The Mainichi Home Page Related Articles Jailed in China (Pt. 1): Japanese man imprisoned for 'spying' tells of 6-yr ordeal Jailed in China (Pt. 2): Blindfolded and interrogated for 'spying' after airport arrest Jailed in China (Pt. 4): A VIP room for detainees and facts divulged by fellow inmates
