M: その後どんな行動をとったの？
M: Can you tell us what happened next?

S: 事情を説明し、女性の警察官と話がしたいと伝えやっとのことで2時間ほど話したところ、交通課なので男性の警部補と話してくれと言われ、そうして別の男性担当者に話したら「管轄外だから、高輪署に行ってください」と。別の日に出直しようやく捜査官と話ができたのですが、彼は私の訴えを聞いた後に「これはよく起こることだから、捜査はできない」 と言ったのです。
 
S: I remember just walking into the police station and telling the receptionist that I want to talk to a female investigator, but he didn’t understand why, so I had to describe what had happened. I was eventually taken into an investigation room with a female police officer, to whom I told everything in great detail. It took me a long time to explain what had happened, and I had panic attack while trying to remember. After talking to her, she said, “I’m sorry but I’m from the traffic department” and she asked me to speak to a male investigator. So I did the same with him. He told me, “I’m sorry, but what happened to you didn’t happen in this neighborhood”. I was raped in Takanawa so they told me that I had to report the incident to the Takanawa police.
When I was finally given the chance to speak to the right person, he told me that “these things happen often and we cannot investigate each case in detail”.

M:　よく起こるって、レイプが？
M:  By “these things”, did he mean rape? That rape is a common occurrence?

S: その通りです。無理だと言われたけれど「ホテルの監視カメラ映像が期限切れになる前に捜査してください！」と頼み込んだのです。捜査官も映像を見てようやく、何か犯罪が起こったのだと気づいてくれました。けれど、大手テレビ局支局長を訴えたら、あなたは二度と日本で働けなくなる。人生が水の泡になるから、事件にしないほうがいいと言われました。
　その後男性が左遷されたニュースをきっかけに何度も話して、'15年4月末にようやく被害届を出したのです受理してくれました。最終的にその捜査官は、非常に協力的に動いてくれたと思います。
 
S: Yes, that’s what he said. So I had to convince him to open an investigation, and I begged him to check the security cameras in the hotel before they would lose access to the footage. I knew which hotel I came out from after the incident, but I didn’t know how I got there as I’d lost all of my memory of that evening. I didn’t remember anything past entering a Sushi restaurant for dinner. Eventually, when he saw the footage from the hotel, the investigator began to realize that some criminal act had taken place.
 But he didn’t file a report. He told me that if I accused a high ranking TBS journalist, my life would be over and I would never be able to work, especially as a journalist, in Japan. He advised me to not to file the case.
 After various media outlets eventually reported on Mr. Yamaguchi’s demotion, and through further continuation of discussions with the police, they finally accepted my filed complaint at the end of April 2015. Looking back, it seems to me that the investigator was quite cooperative, and did a lot to help me out.