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Household 4417-B

A domestic receiver recorded K. Watanabe arriving home at 02:40. His wife later asked this archive whether his glasses had ever been found.

CaseP-022StatusONE TAPE · ONE WITNESS
Period1986–2011Received viaAnonymous drop
Added02 Sep 2026Updated-
FilesTXT 3K, JPG 138K | Download as plain text (.txt)
Scans in this file (1)
A lit model house in the 11F city model, labelled 4417-B.
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The tape

A lit model house in the 11F city model, labelled 4417-B.
11F CITY MODEL · RESIDENCE 4417-B · LIT

Kokushi company housing included a fixed domestic receiver for Pacific Leisure FM. According to Employee Monitoring indexes, the receivers also listened.

The index entry reads:

HOUSEHOLD 4417-B · 02:40 · RETURN LOGGED · SPOUSE QUERY REGARDING EYEWEAR: NOTED · FAMILY ADJUSTMENT WITHIN TOLERANCE

One word on the index card has been blacked out by hand, below the stamp: 鍵 2 / 3 · KAERU

The tape itself is in Japanese. I am publishing only the last two lines.

4417-B: もう寝なさい。すべて許容範囲内だ。

WIFE: ……それ、ラジオで言ってることと同じ。

The glasses

Every photograph of K. Watanabe before August 1986 shows him in thick, research-grade spectacles, the Kokushi-issue kind. He could not read without them.

After August 1986 there are no photographs of him wearing glasses.

The witness

In 2011 a woman who gave her married name as Watanabe wrote to this archive. She did not ask about Floor 14. She asked one question:

“Were his glasses ever found?”

She told me her husband came home that night soaked through, smelling of the copier room, and never needed his glasses again. She said he stopped talking in his sleep. She said that, after a while, she stopped noticing.

Box 4417 is said to contain “spectacles, Kokushi-issue, research grade.” The household copy was “issued without spectacles.” I didn’t understand the second phrase until I read the first.


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