M: その後、なぜ自ら事件を公表しようと思ったのですか？
M: After you filed the complaint, when did you decide to go public with the incident and why?
 
S: 捜査の末に、裁判所から逮捕令状が出ました。警察は山口氏の逮捕の日取りを決めました。でも逮捕当日に「警視庁トップの指示で逮捕はとりやめになった」と言われたんです。なぜそんな事が起こるのか？ 信じられませんでした。裏で何かが起こっていると恐怖を感じました。また当時は何をしても無力なんだと感じました。担当捜査官も検察官も捜査から外され、誰に相談していいかわからなかった。
 結局勝つのは権力なんだ、と絶望のどん底だった。けれど、どんな状況でも前に進まなければと思ったのです。捜査の疑問やサポートシステムの不備を伝えるため、自分の事件を報道できないかと、今まで仕事をしてきた国内外のメディアに声をかけ始めました。
 
S:After two months of investigation, the court finally issued a warrant for his arrest. They called to confirm this, and the date of his arrest. A few days later, I got another call telling me that the police had received an order from the “top police chief” to cancel the arrest warrant. I couldn’t believe it. How could this have happened?
 I was so scared all of a sudden. I knew something was wrong, that something was happening behind the scenes. I called the prosecutor who said he was taken off this case ( the main investigator on the case was also moved). I felt powerless.
 I didn’t know what to do, or who to turn to. The whole ordeal confirmed my belief that power cannot be trumped; I was in a pit of despair. My voice was too small to reach out or travel anywhere. That day, I felt that there is no justice. But I couldn’t let this crime pass through unnoticed. I knew I had to keep moving forward, whatever the situation may be, and I tried to talk to some journalists both in Japan and abroad who I can trust. I needed to communicate the inadequacies of the legal, judiciary and social support systems in the face of such incidents.