Hiro In The Shadows
12 min readJul 4, 2019
Hirohito Shimazu lived a quit life in Chiba. Eschewing the cramped space and high prices of nearby Tokyo, he invested in a four bedroom midrise in Oshkiri. Anyone who watched Hiro bike to and from the Gyotuko Station would assume that he worked for a tech company or some other office job. With his long hair and coltish gait he certainly did not look like someone who was the youngest decorated member of the Tokushusakusengun or had studied as a youth…