Record of The Case
From 1961, an agriculture and forestry technical officer (農林技官, Nōrin gikan?), Kimura Moritake, who was working in the district forest office in Asahikawa Kotanbetsu, started an examination of the case, in order to leave a permanent record of it.
Forty-six years had already passed, and little official material was left, so Kimura traced the people who lived in Sankebetsu in those days, and made careful records of their stories.
Obtaining a full and accurate picture of events was not possible, as many of the villagers were already deceased and most of the survivors were not cooperative due to the gruesome nature of the attack.
Kimura's account of the attack was reprinted in 1980, and in 1994 published as The Devil's Valley (慟哭の谷 The Devil's Valley, Dōkoku no Tani: the Devil's Valley?) by Kyōdō bunkasha.
Yoshimura Akira, a Japanese novelist, gathered information about this case, and wrote about it in a novel.
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