[Monthly NIGOD Newsletter] November 2021 | Godzilla Interception Operation [Official] Nijigen no Mori

“From an email sent by a former Mainichi Shimbun reporter to a former colleague (excerpt)”

I will never forget the day I first heard the unfamiliar name “NIGOD”: November 3rd, 2019.

Upon receiving information that “the government will hold an emergency press conference,” they immediately headed to the Prime Minister’s Office, where they heard the somewhat absurd government announcement that “an unknown giant creature called ‘Godzilla’ exists off the coast of Awaji Island,” and that the institute had been announced as “a specialized research institute that has its roots in the former Imperial Japanese Army.”

Its official name is the “National Awaji-island Institute of Godzilla Disaster,” which is surprising considering that it is a national research institute.

According to an official announcement from NIGOD, the research dates back to the Taisho era, meaning that the country has been aware of the existence of “monsters” and has been researching them for over 100 years.

Although surprised, he wrote the manuscript on his laptop at the press conference and sent it to his desk, and the special edition was quickly created and distributed.

I never thought I would end up writing an extra edition, but as I reread the article I had written, I came to a question: Could an institution of this size have carried out such absurd research for so many years without being noticed by foreign countries?

I spoke to my editor and begged him to let me write an article about NIGOD, saying that if I could just find out the source of funding that had kept such an organization afloat for so many years, it would be a major scoop.

Using my network as a journalist, I collected all sorts of materials related to “NIGOD” and interviewed people who I thought might be involved, in an attempt to uncover the whole story.

In fact, it was a battle against a huge amount of information.

As he continued his research, he met several “comrades,” exchanging information with them across different positions and company and organizational boundaries, and getting closer to the mystery.

The more we looked into it, the deeper its true nature became, and various speculations and conspiracy theories began to fly.

We were faced with a torrent of information that was neither true nor fiction, such as “M Funds” being used to run the organization, “the organization was once dissolved during the budget cut-off period,” or “they were trying to build super weapons and giant robots to fight monsters,” and we thought about giving up many times. That’s how difficult the investigation into “NIGOD” was.

As I continued my research with no prospect of publishing the results in sight, I asked myself this question over and over again.

“Why do I continue to do this?”

However, after striking out many times, sometimes being fooled, and going back to square one several times, I naturally found the answer.

“I want to know the truth.” Titles, positions, and honors don’t matter, I just want to know the full story of this mysterious organization. That’s all.

The process of unraveling and revealing each piece of information became my very motivation.

Having come to this realization, I submitted my resignation from Mainichi Shimbun after writing the manuscript for the third special edition (the end of the Godzilla interception operation).

To cut to the chase, I am now working as a contract agent for NIGOD, together with my former “comrades,” undertaking various tasks related to information gathering and control.

Shortly after she left the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper and became a freelance crime reporter (“I feel embarrassed to call myself a journalist”), she came into contact with someone who identified herself as a “former NIGOD associate,” and the first thing she said to her was, “I would really like to borrow the skills you have used to put together all this material.”

When I heard those words, it all made sense to me: NIGOD and us are, in the end, birds of a feather.

We journalists will use any and all means necessary to pursue the “truth,” but the people we were so desperately trying to expose are also a group of scholars who will stop at nothing for the sake of their research. For them it’s research, and for us it’s uncovering the truth. They have no interest in anything else…

This is the story of our strange encounter with NIGOD.

Incidentally, all of the manuscripts and materials we had created about NIGOD were collected and then republished in a new format based on NIGOD customs and existing materials.https://shop.nijigennomori.com/items/35358500

This is, of course, a more accurate and detailed document than our manuscript, so if you’re interested, please give it a read.

If you want to laugh at the “hunter became the hunted” then go ahead and laugh.

I just wanted to let you know that with this exciting environment and the generous pay, there’s nothing else I could ask for.

Finally, a remnant of my time in the public eye is the extra edition of the Mainichi Shimbun that was collected by NIGOD after distribution.

If you would like to purchase one, please come directly to Nijigen no Mori on Awaji Island. I cannot reveal whether I will be there or not, but several of my close friends are working there as staff, so please speak to the staff at the reception counter after entering.

The password is the last three digits of a certain date that appears in this text, and the deadline is likely to be the end of this year (December 31, 2021).

Maybe someday when we meet we’ll be able to talk in more detail.

Well, until then.