Visitation by family began to be refused in middle August. The Detention House repeated visitation refusal and permission to his family as well, and as far as We know, all visitations were refused after the last visitation around April 30, 2008 for attorneys and June 10 for family.
Our older sister and younger brother were the last people in our family who were able to meet our father. We heard he was in a terrible mental and physical condition, with the skin on his face being peeled, red and swollen.
Our younger brother who met our father after a long time was shocked by his condition, and worryingly asked him, "You look red here and there. Is it a rash or did you get bitten by something," but no answer came back as a matter of course.
We also think about another possibility. The Detention House concluded not to let anyone meet our father, because our brother who is only a boy worried about not only his mental state but also his physical condition.
In later years, we requested adult guardianship with our father as a ward and investigators and expert witnesses from a family court tried to meet him; however the Tokyo Detention Court rejected it. A family court exclusively handles judgment and mediation relating to family and household as well as judgment on criminal cases involving juveniles. Adult guardianship is a system to request a guardian to a family court for a person with insufficient ability to make decisions due to mental disability (e.g., intellectual disability, mental disability, dementia, etc.) so that the guardian can help the person not to suffer from the disabilities.
As long as We know, our father has not been seen by outside people since June 10, 2008. He was shielded by the Tokyo Detention House in a physically and mentally worn-out condition as last seen by our older sister and younger brother.
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