Pages one through three of the search results for “The Turntable of Civilization” are dominated by unavailable product pages for an out-of-print edition and the former pen name “Kenji Akutagawa,” which has been used by a Facebook impersonation account since around November 2017.
Later pages are filled with unrelated blogs.
This open letter demands a comprehensive investigation, preservation of records, and corrective action by Google and Bing, including an examination of possible links with the search interference that began in 2011 and the subsequent impersonation.

August 6, 2026
An Open Letter Demanding Answers and an Urgent Investigation from Google and Bing
On August 6, 2026, I again examined the Google and Bing search results for the distinctive title “The Turntable of Civilization.”
I found that the author’s current official website and recently updated Hatena Blog articles were not being displayed adequately, while product pages for an old edition published more than a decade ago and now out of print repeatedly dominated the upper search results.
In the search environment that I examined, pages one through three repeatedly displayed old product pages from Amazon, Yahoo! Shopping, Rakuten, Yodobashi Camera, Kinokuniya, and other retailers.
A page-by-page examination showed that Amazon carried a third-party listing describing the out-of-print edition as “new,” Yahoo! Shopping displayed “zero items” and “no lowest price,” Rakuten displayed “sold out,” and Yodobashi Camera displayed “sales suspended” and “zero stores with stock.”
Kinokuniya also displayed an old product page, although handling of the book was stopped after I contacted the company.
Many of the pages prominently displayed in the results therefore concern an out-of-print, sold-out, unavailable, suspended, or discontinued product that cannot presently be purchased through ordinary channels.
Nevertheless, these unavailable old product pages are being displayed more prominently and repeatedly than the author’s current official publications.
More seriously, the author name repeatedly displayed on pages one through three is overwhelmingly concentrated on “Kenji Akutagawa,” my original pen name, which I was compelled to stop using around November 2017 because of impersonation.
My current author name, “MIKIO KISARA,” and my current official publications are not displayed adequately.
By contrast, the former pen name that I no longer use and the unavailable pages for the out-of-print edition published under that name repeatedly appear throughout pages one through three.
Around November 2017, an impersonating Facebook account appeared under my former pen name, “Kenji Akutagawa,” and presented itself in a manner that made it appear to be me.
Following the appearance of this impersonation, I was compelled to stop using the pen name “Kenji Akutagawa.”
Despite this, the present search results preserve only the former pen name in prominent positions, while failing to display my current author name and current official publications adequately.
This is an extremely unnatural reversal.
Users may be seriously misled into believing that the author is still active under the name “Kenji Akutagawa” or that the old edition remains normally available from several retailers.
From page four onward, the search results are filled with numerous blogs and pages that have no relationship whatsoever to “The Turntable of Civilization” and whose content can only be described as frivolous and irrelevant.
Pages one through three are dominated by unavailable product pages for the old edition and the former pen name that has been used for impersonation.
The subsequent pages are filled with blogs and pages entirely unrelated to “The Turntable of Civilization.”
The overall structure of the search results substantially obstructs users from reaching the author’s current official information.
This cannot be adequately explained by saying merely that old bibliographical information has been preserved.
The problem is not simply that old pages continue to exist.
The problem is that the current official information of an active author has been pushed back, while a former pen name that the author no longer uses and unavailable old product pages remain prominently displayed, followed by large numbers of unrelated blogs.
This phenomenon closely resembles the search interference that began after June 1, 2011.
According to my records, a man created hundreds of IDs and blogs on several blogging platforms and published large numbers of pages that used the name “The Turntable of Civilization” or falsely suggested a connection with it.
The search results were consequently polluted by pages unrelated to the author’s genuine blog and publications, obstructing users from reaching the authentic source.
In 2012, I filed a criminal complaint concerning this conduct.
According to my records, the complaint was formally accepted and an investigation commenced.
During police questioning, the man admitted that he had created the blogs and pages in question.
The present structure of the search results, in which the upper pages are occupied by the former pen name and unavailable old product information while later pages are filled with unrelated blogs, closely resembles the situation that arose after June 1, 2011.
Around November 2017, a Facebook impersonation account then appeared under my former pen name, “Kenji Akutagawa.”
I am not asserting solely on the basis of the current search screen that the person operating the impersonation account directly manipulated Google’s or Bing’s search results.
However, hundreds of IDs and blogs were previously created to target the name “The Turntable of Civilization,” and the creator admitted his conduct during police questioning.
A Facebook impersonation account later appeared under the same author’s former pen name.
The current search results now repeatedly display that former pen name and unavailable old product pages throughout pages one through three, while page four and later pages are filled with blogs unrelated to the search term.
It would be unreasonable to assume, before conducting a proper investigation, that all of these events are entirely unrelated.
There are strong grounds to suspect that the person involved in the earlier search interference, the person using the name “Kenji Akutagawa” on Facebook, or related third parties may have been involved in creating pages that pollute the current search results, unnatural associations, backlinks, copy sites, search spam, false author information, removal requests, or other activities.
The fact that causation has not yet been proven does not mean that the possible relationship should not be investigated.
Google and Bing have access to indexing history, ranking changes, backlink data, search-spam signals, removal requests, entity information, and associations between sites that ordinary users cannot examine.
This is precisely why Google and Bing must conduct a technical and neutral investigation.
I therefore ask Google and Bing the following questions.
Why are pages one through three of the search results for the distinctive title “The Turntable of Civilization” repeatedly occupied by product pages for an old edition that is out of print, sold out, unavailable, suspended, or discontinued?
Why does the former pen name “Kenji Akutagawa,” which the author stopped using around November 2017, remain concentrated in the upper results, while the current author name “MIKIO KISARA” and current official publications are not displayed adequately?
Why are page four and subsequent pages filled with numerous blogs and pages that have no relationship whatsoever to “The Turntable of Civilization”?
What backlinks, structured data, entity information, external pages, search spam, copy sites, removal requests, or algorithmic associations produced this result?
Have Google and Bing investigated the possible relationship between the current search results and the mass creation of blogs that began after June 1, 2011, the criminal complaint and investigation in 2012, and the Facebook impersonation account using the name “Kenji Akutagawa” that has existed since around November 2017?
If no such investigation has been conducted, on what basis can these events be regarded as unrelated?
I demand that Google and Bing conduct a comprehensive and rigorous investigation of the search results for “The Turntable of Civilization,” from the first page through the final page.
The investigation must examine the repeated display of unavailable old product pages, the abnormal concentration on the former pen name “Kenji Akutagawa,” the insufficient display of the current author name and official publications, the mass display of unrelated blogs, unnatural backlinks, search spam, copy sites, removal requests, and associations involving entity information.
The possible relationship with the search interference that began in 2011 and the Facebook impersonation that appeared around 2017 must not be excluded from the investigation.
Google and Bing must also immediately preserve all relevant records, including indexing history, ranking changes, backlinks, removal requests, spam reports, entity information, and associations between sites.
This is not merely a complaint about search ranking.
It is a serious matter in which a phenomenon closely resembling past search interference, for which a criminal complaint was formally accepted and an investigation conducted, has appeared again in the present search results.
Google and Bing must not close this matter after checking only the technical condition of individual URLs.
Through this public letter, I demand a comprehensive investigation of the entire search-result structure, a clear explanation, and all necessary corrective action.