The Rashomon of Reparations

In 2028, one year after the Supreme Court of the Republic of Touwa dismisses a landmark damages lawsuit filed by wartime victims from the Republic of Seikai, an elderly former comfort woman is found dead under suspicious circumstances inside the Ministry of Postwar Settlement. Private detective Shunsuke Miyamoto discovers that every witness—from a cold-blooded bureaucrat to a sympathetic activist—holds a completely different memory of the same night. As state machinery manipulates testimony and submerges the truth beneath subjective lies, the arrogance of the bureaucracy emerges as the quiet midwife of tragedy, crafting a classic Yokomizo-style psychological mystery steeped in historical guilt.