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KOKUSHICORP.COM // MIRROR 03 OF 07
P-022  HOUSEHOLD 4417-B
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STATUS:   ONE TAPE · ONE WITNESS
PERIOD:   1986–2011
ADDED:    02 Sep 2026
SHA-1:    2B39F382029C
SOURCE:   https://kokushicorp.com/files/household-4417-b/
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A domestic receiver recorded K. Watanabe arriving home at 02:40. His
wife later asked this archive whether his glasses had ever been found.

## The tape

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

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: [REDACTED]

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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