When the author was living in Nishi-Hachioji and working as a construction tradesman, his foreman had been in the classification center twice, the holding cell twice, and the juvenile training school once, and he’d say, I was a “Kkotjebi” (Korean term for street urchin), and…
The gigantic Johnson Town, with about 1,000 units of U.S. military housing and clusters of abandoned warehouses (in the current history it was the entire area around the vacant land next to Sai-no-Mori Iruma Park and the Self-Defense Forces hospital, all the way along the south side of the Seibu Ikebukuro Line tracks, sprawling across a vast tract of U.S. military residential land, and the warehouses had fallen into ruins, the houses were dilapidated thanks to squatters, garbage strewn everywhere, and on Google it looked like a straight-up slum, or so the story goes), even after the land was returned to Japan, many U.S.-nationality gang members were squatting there illegally, and although the authorities were, bit by bit, making them vacate and taking it back through the power of the courts, there were occasionally weird demonstrations that interfered and made it a struggle, and the police were deploying in large numbers, and it should have been in the news, but it seems those news reports have been retroactively erased as if they never existed from the start. Around Iruma (Johnson) Base, families of U.S. military personnel and ex-military families with American nationality were illegally settling in Johnson Town, and there were frequent heinous crimes thought to be their doing. In particular, there was rampant trafficking of firearms and drugs using U.S. military transport aircraft, whereby they brought guns into Japan and shipped illegal drugs like methamphetamine to America. The Japanese police couldn’t enter, so it was a total free-for-all, or so it is said. Even the American mainland, as you’d expect, regarded it as a problem, and because the gang members also had U.S. nationality it would be a headache if they came to the United States, so at long last Force Recon (United States Marine Corps special operations unit) was deployed to suppress and sweep them out; but after that, once the land expropriation was lifted and the Japanese police could deploy, there…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.