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A recent commenter wrote-

"This is quite well done. do you live in Japan? You seem so familliar with the culture and the criminals anyway."

I've never lived in Japan but have visited the country. The occasional bits of Japanese in the story are being provided to me by a friend.

From 1987 to 1989 while serving in the Navy, I was stationed in the Philippines at Subic Bay. I've also traveled to many parts of the region. Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau in addition to the Philippines.

For this story I relied on my travels and internet research on the locales and customs I write about.

Now that Part 6 is published, I'm going to hold back on publishing part 7 for a week. There is a reason. Part 7 is written but not proofed yet. I've just gone through that process with part 6, and its mentally fatiguing. I'll give myself a break from that for a few days before resuming it again. In any case, I got to get to work on part 8. It is barely started, like 500 words long at present.