<figure id="attachment_400395" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 798px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-400395"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="47e62523"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/eafbda83a35a67b2b6954ff1ffb28ec8.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-400395" class="wp-caption-text">Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba appointed Sanae Takaichi (left) to head the &#8220;Investigative Commission on Security, Terrorism, and Cybercrime.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Clarifying the reality of anonymous and fluid criminal groups (Tokuryu)</h2>
<p>Did they go to put a collar on him &#8211; or did he go to put a collar on them?</p>
<p>In response to the frequent incidents of black-market crimes via social networking services, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has reorganized its investigative committee on security and counter-terrorism into the &#8220;Investigative Committee on Security, Terrorism, and Cybercrime Countermeasures&#8221; and has appointed former Minister of Economic and Security Affairs Sanae Takaichi to head the committee. The committee decided that Mr. Takaichi was qualified for the position because of his experience in cyber security measures during his tenure as Minister of Economy and Security.</p>
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<p>Mr. Takaichi competed with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for the &#8220;prime minister&#8217;s seat&#8221; in the LDP presidential election held on September 27. After the election, he was offered the post of &#8220;General Affairs Chairman&#8221; by the party, but he declined the offer. He has maintained a certain distance from Prime Minister Ishiba.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> It is difficult to find a good reason to refuse. If I refuse, some will say, &#8216;Who the hell do you think you are? If he refuses, some will say, &#8220;Who do you think you are?</span></p>
<p>(LDP official).</p>
<p>The new organization will play a wide range of roles, but the most anticipated is the clarification of the actual situation and strengthening of the crackdown on &#8220;anonymous and fluid criminal groups (Tokuryu),&#8221; in which an unspecified number of people are connected via highly secretive social networking services and the perpetrators are replaced by each other. Mr. Takaichi himself made this pledge in his pledge for the October Lower House election.</p>
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<p>On November 14, it was learned that the &#8220;man&#8221; behind the popular &#8220;Z Li&#8221; account, which has over 900,000 followers, had been arrested. Five men were arrested by the Gang Control Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of breaking and entering, including the suspects Masaki Taki, Takayu Sawaguchi, and Koji Shukuwa, a martial artist who has participated in RIZIN.</p>
<p>In November 2010, the Taki suspects broke into an apartment in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo, where a man in his 40s lived. The motive was to recover a stolen Z Li member&#8217;s motorcycle, and they stayed at the man&#8217;s house for over an hour.</p>
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<h2>The Metropolitan Police Department made a concerted effort.</h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;The reason we did the case two years ago at this time is for another purpose. There is information that the Taki suspect&#8217;s group is involved in a case involving Tokuryo, and the authorities want to secure the suspects for the home invasion two years ago, and from here, they want to analyze their smartphones and search the relevant parties in order to conduct a &#8220;follow-up investigation&#8221;.</span></p>
<p>The Z Lee account is operated by several people and has continued to be updated even after the arrest of Taki.</p>
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<p>According to a publishing source</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The authorities are aware that the Z Li group is &#8216;not a direct anti-social organization, but someone close to them,&#8217; and they believe that this will lead to the clarification of the anti-social organization that is behind the series of black-market incidents,&#8221; said a source close to the publication.</span></p>
<p>He said, &#8220;The arrest of Z. Li has made it difficult for us to find out who is behind this.</p>
<p>Although Z. Li&#8217;s arrest has been overshadowed, a man was arrested and sent to Akita City around the same time on suspicion of stealing approximately 1.5 million yen in cash from the cash card of a woman in her 80s, which he had obtained illegally. The man is believed to be the perpetrator of the black market job, and has stated that he committed similar crimes in six prefectures, including Kyoto, Kagawa, and Miyagi.</p>
<p>In Kochi Prefecture, a 16-year-old boy and a 27-year-old university student, believed to be part of the &#8220;Tokuryu&#8221; gang, were also arrested on the night of November 14. They repeatedly sold counterfeit Rolexes at stores in Chugoku and Shikoku to defraud customers out of cash, and the total loss amounted to 36 million yen. The prefectural police had arrested 17 people by the 15th, with the two mentioned above playing a central role in the fraud group.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The Toku Ryu crime cannot be tolerated even for a moment,&#8221; said Mr. Takaichi. Will Ms. Takaichi be able to destroy them with her &#8220;hard skills&#8221;? Her true value will be tested.</span></p>
<p>Most people on the Internet have high expectations for Takaichi, but an LDP insider has a different view.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Prime Minister Ishiba went to put a collar on Takaichi. The other day, she held a meeting with her support group, and a weekly magazine reported that Takaichi was &#8216;raising the wolf. Although his influence is less than before the general election, he still has many enthusiastic supporters and cannot be ignored. The Tokuryu issue is so complicated that it is said that even with the full force of the Metropolitan Police Department, it will be impossible to fully understand the situation.</span><span class="strongInContent"> The Tokuryu problem is so complex that it is said to be impossible to fully understand even if the Metropolitan Police Department were to do its utmost. If crime is reduced, it will be a credit to the administration, but if it fails, it will be a reflection of Mr. Takaichi&#8217;s &#8220;lack of competence.</span></p>
<p>Will Mr. Takaichi be able to calmly clear the &#8220;reckless&#8221; case?</p>


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