I appeared online on July 16, 2010, as “the Turntable of Civilization”.
The confusion surrounding the Osaka Umeda Kita Yard project was so severe that I decided that we had no choice but to let the Japanese people know about it through the Internet.
I wanted to appear using my real name, but since this was my first appearance online, I decided not to use my real name.
I wanted to appear as soon as possible but needed help to think of a pen name.
One day, at a crossroads on my way back to the office from my usual place for lunch, a pseudonym suddenly came to my mind.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kenji Miyazawa, who significantly influenced my life, merged instantly.
Kenji Akutagawa, I liked this pen name.
In May 2011, I was hospitalized at Kitano Hospital, a large hospital in Osaka, for eight months after suffering from a severe illness that my doctor told me had a 25% chance of survival.
Immediately after I appeared on the Internet, I received a flurry of requests to publish from two publishers in Tokyo.
I kept it pending, thinking that the Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei Shimbun newspapers would eventually come to request it.
But if I die, there’s nothing I can do.
Therefore, of the two companies mentioned above, I chose a large publishing company without worrying about going bankrupt.
They shortened the seven to six months and published it on December 1, 2011.
As soon as I announced this on my blog, the criminal, well-known to my sincere readers, became incredibly persistent and committed much search interference.
In 2012, after I was discharged from the hospital, it was so bad that I filed criminal charges against this man.
When questioned by the police, he confessed to everything he had done.
I filed this complaint alone, without involving a lawyer’s office.
Even if this is not the case, the reality is that Japanese district prosecutors only prosecute cases that are 100% conducive to conviction.
It took three years for the case to go to the district attorney’s office, but no lawsuit was filed.
This criminal used this as a bonus and created an account on Twitter called Akutagawa Plus Kenji@, his real name, to impersonate me.
I thought that was it for now, so I stopped using this pen name.
My second pseudonym was Haruo Nara.
I don’t use Facebook much, but I do have an account.
I had a bad feeling and searched for it.
At first, he pretended to be Nara Haruo using alphabetical characters.
However, recently, I had a bad feeling and tried searching, and in the end, he pretended to be the same, even with the kanji.
He is a criminal born as an “abysmal evil” and a ” plausible lie.”
I can’t afford to be impersonated any longer.
I will stop using my pen name as of today.
There is another reason for that.
I will announce it shortly.
As of today, the author’s name is my real name.