The widow tells the horrors of the compression campaign about the Hyogo scandal

Himeji, Prefecture Hyogo – the widow of a local politician told how the couple was frozen of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear.

“My husband died without being able to speak against (the wrong comments),” the widow told Asahi Shimbun in a recently carried out interview. “Such an incident must never be repeated.”

The politician, Hideaki Takeuchi, was a member of the special committees of the Hyogo Prefectural Assembly, who alleged that governor Motohiko Saito was committed to bullying at work and other misconduct.

The allegations, which was sent to media organizations in March 2024, which was also sent to media organizations in an obvious suicide, forced Saito to clear the governor's term of office, and annoyed his followers, who began to operate the participants involved in the investigation.

During the governor's campaign campaign in November, Takashi Tachibana released, which heads a political organization that the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (Nhk) criticizes, a memo that Takeuchi described as a “mastermind” behind the allegations against Saito.

Tachibana ran at the election, but took the opportunity to support Saito's candidacy.

The memo was made available by Minoru Kisdiguchi, a member of the Hyogo Ishin No Kai Prefecture Assembly, who was later excluded from the regional political party because of the problem.

Takeuchi belonged to another block of members of the prefecture meeting.

According to the widow, Takeuchi's office received e -mails and letters in which he “deserves the death penalty”.

“It was the first time that I became evil's goal,” said the widow 49.

Takeuchi resigned from the prefecture meeting on November 18, a day after Saito won the election.

According to the widow, Takeuchi had said that he could not continue his job if it were causing his family.

On December 25th, the couple looked at an online -live transmission of a meeting of the special investigative committee of the prefecture meeting.

Makoto Masuyama, a member of Hyogo Ishin No Kai's prefecture meeting, informed the meeting that Takeuchi asked questions based on a “wrong rumor” during a previous committee meeting.

The widow said: “It wasn't true, but (my husband) seemed to have thought that he would be persecuted forever.”

She added: “I wonder what they wanted from someone who lost his political life and job and was also killed socially.”

Hyogo Ishin No Kai later asked Masuyama to leave the party because he handed over an unknown audio recording of a special committee meeting to Tachibana during the election campaign.

In April, the secretariat of the prefecture meeting also corrected the minutes of the committee meeting on December 25th in relation to three of Masuyama's statements on Takeuchi.

According to the widow, Takeuchi repeatedly apologized to her what happened to his family.

Takeuchi was found dead on January 18.

The following day, Tachibana released a video on social media, in which the former member of the prefecture meeting was soon to be arrested.

In an unusual step, the head of the prefecture police department denied the claims of Tachibana during a meeting of the prefecture committee on January 20.

She said that the lie about Takeuchi's impending arrest was even after the police chief was rejected.

The widow finally started reading social media posts about her husband after a 49-day mourning time.

“Remarks that have been published can still be viewed, even if they have been refused,” she said. “I have the feeling that salt is rubbed into our wounds.”

She said she was still thinking about why things played out every day.

“My husband was driven into a corner and left out on a member,” she said. “I think his death should leave a message that society should never happen the same thing again.”

(This article was written by Takeshi Shimawaki and Eri Niiya.)