Tokyo

In another section of the city, Koji Tatsumi entered his office after returning from Yokohama, where he had seen a large shipment of stereos and televisions safely on their way to California. He had duly reported the death of Watanabe to his superiors, along with a statement that, although the authorities considered it suicide, it could have been murder, given that he himself had been followed after he had left Tadashi at the bar.

Koji knew, as did everyone in Tokyo, that the authorities fined the families of subway suicides for the inconvenience they caused in holding up the trains, whose efficiency was legendary. He wondered if the Watanabes had been fined and what their reaction had been. He also wondered if there were anything he could have done to prevent the man's death. His intellect told him, very little. But his conscience still nagged.