Author’s Note

Kodaira Yoshio was executed at the Miyagi Prison in Sendai
Prefecture on the fifth of October, 1949.
He was forty-four years old.
Kodaira Yoshio had confessed to the rapes and murders of ten
women, including Miyazaki Mitsuko and the second woman found
in Shiba Park, Tokyo, in August 1946.
However, this woman has never been identified.
She was aged approximately seventeen to eighteen years and
died on or around the twenty-second of July, 1946 –
Namu-amida-butsu…

David Peace, Tokyo, 2006
The Year of the Dog