Shizuoka Prefecture enters the narrative through two sharply different episodes: Susumu Kajiyama’s first recorded arrest there in 1974, and a later raid on Goryo-kai headquarters within the prefecture. The book gives no general portrait of the region; instead, it uses these incidents to place a criminal career and a major police operation on the same map.

Kajiyama’s Early Record

In the account of Kajiyama’s criminal history, Shizuoka Prefecture is the site of his first arrest. In March 1974, he was arrested for assault and bodily injury and received a fine of fifty thousand yen rather than a prison sentence. Two years later, he was arrested for extortion and served a year in jail. After a later prison term connected to methamphetamine offenses, he moved to Tokyo upon his release in 1983. Shizuoka thus marks the earliest specific location in the chronology presented for his repeated encounters with the law, before the narrative follows his activity into the capital.

The Raid on Goryo-kai Headquarters

The prefecture returns as the setting for a police raid on the headquarters of Goryo-kai. The operation was scheduled for August 11, and the Yomiuri Shinbun had advance notice. A traffic jam delayed the police, however, disrupting the newspaper’s preparations: by the time the reporter arrived at work at ten in the morning, the article was being finished, but editors were already pressing for a story before the raid had begun.

The raid got underway around noon. Reporters from the newspaper’s Shizuoka office photographed the scene and sent reports to Tokyo, where the material was assembled. The account describes a familiar police-operation tableau: men in dark suits standing aside, officers in riot gear nearby, and plainclothes officers carrying cardboard boxes from the building. The contents of the boxes are presented as presumed documents, not confirmed in the passage.

A Site Within a Wider Investigation

These references give Shizuoka Prefecture two distinct roles in the book’s account of organized crime. It is first a place in Kajiyama’s personal record, then the location of an operation against an organization whose headquarters were there. The raid’s delayed start and the newspaper’s advance preparation also show how events in the prefecture were linked to reporting and coordination in Tokyo. Shizuoka is not developed as a setting in its own right; its significance comes from the criminal history and institutional action that the narrative locates there.