Chapter 180: National Great Audit

Compared to other countries, the Japanese public's trust in the police is relatively high (though it has slipped significantly since the Showa era), and Uesugi Muneyuki's consistent persona is such that he says what he has to say; whether it is the Fuji TV Case, the Chiba Prefecture Case, or the Todai Case, he highlights the point of dealing with matters as they are, and on top of his persona as a descendant of Uesugi Kenshin and Uesugi Kagekatsu, combined with his excellent appearance, he is naturally particularly convincing.

Uesugi Kenshin himself, if one strips away his neurotic, shamanistic mode, was actually a man obsessed with righteousness and a retro-maniac who always hoped to return the Kanto region and even the whole world to the model of the Muromachi Shogunate, while Uesugi Kagekatsu was serious, rational, and stern his whole life; it is said that the only time he smiled in front of others was when a monkey he kept wore his hat and mimicked him giving orders during the monthly assessment.

Uesugi Muneyuki's performance perfectly matched the public's stereotype of Uesugi Kenshin and Uesugi Kagekatsu, so his words naturally appeared especially credible.

As for the District Public Prosecutors Office, they watched the entire live broadcast and were naturally so angry they were beside themselves, needless to say.

The University of Tokyo also watched the entire live broadcast.

"He is indeed a capable person; it is no injustice for us at the University of Tokyo to be defeated by him," Principal Komiyama said, frowning.

If it weren't for Uesugi Muneyuki's particular insistence, the University of Tokyo had intended to argue for a verdict of passionate mutual assault and excessive self-defense, and of course, they would not admit to the destruction of the corpse either; that would be called an accident.

The Tokyo University Faculty of Law is full of talent, and the police, legal, court, and District Public Prosecutors Office circles are all their people; in that case, the sentence would be at most five years, followed by a three-year suspension, and since Professor Tsuda already had a chronic illness, the note for applying for medical parole would be issued by the Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital.

From beginning to end, they are all our people from the University of Tokyo; what do you have to fight us with?

But he just happened to run into a tough nut like Uesugi Muneyuki!

"Under these circumstances, how many years will Tsuda likely be sentenced to?" Principal Komiyama asked the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University.

"Approximately 22 to 25 years in prison; it is possible for Tsuda to be sentenced to life imprisonment at most, but it is unlikely that Tsuda will be sentenced to life," the Dean of the Faculty of Law said. "It is a bit difficult to apply for medical parole under these circumstances."

"There is no other way, let's do this," Principal Komiyama said calmly. "Notify the alumni association, mobilize all media resources, and try to steer everything toward issues of gender opposition, salary surrender, and housewives, emphasizing Tsuda Takako's serious negligence in housework and family finances... besides, Tsuda was originally the victim."

"Yes!"

"Contact Professor William at MIT; he also knows the inside story. Request that he come forward and send a letter to the District Public Prosecutors Office to plead for mercy. William is a devout Puritan and as traditional as Tsuda; he will help us."

"Yes."

"Collect the signatures of all professors and all students in the Agriculture and Forestry Department, and collect the signatures of the alumni association; it would be best if it exceeds 1,000 people. Petition the Tokyo District Court collectively, hoping they can show leniency to Tsuda in this situation... there is no other way, Uesugi-kun demands that charges like passionate murder cannot be moved, we can only do this."

The faces of the several high-level officials from the University of Tokyo present all showed expressions of shock and humiliation; that a mere Forensic Pathologist could force the University of Tokyo to this point was simply the first time in history!

"Don't worry, everyone," Principal Komiyama smiled meaningfully. "Uesugi-kun has already accepted our school's special invitation for a combined master's and doctoral program, and has agreed to work at our Tokyo University Affiliated Hospital afterward. Although he is very strong, he will soon be one of our own at the University of Tokyo!"

The high-level officials present all had smiles on their faces.

We at the University of Tokyo are invincible!

Sure enough, just as the Metropolitan Police Department press conference ended, the University of Tokyo took the lead in issuing a public announcement, fully acknowledging all the information and case details released by the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Appointed On-site Forensic Consultant Uesugi Muneyuki at the press conference, expressing sincere apologies to the whole of society, and feeling extremely regretful about the matter of Professor Tsuda.

However, the preceding apology announcement was only a short part, and subsequently, the University of Tokyo introduced one thing at great length.

The Todai Professor Audit!

After the dust settled on the Tsuda case, the University of Tokyo took this opportunity to assist more than 130 professors and associate professors from various departments across the four campuses in auditing their family accounts, helping these professors who were devoted to academics handle their family affairs.

The result revealed that the family accounts of at least 40 professors had certain problems; the professors' wives had made large, significant expenditures behind the backs of the professors and associate professors, and there was a serious discrepancy between the expenditures and the actual salary handed over.

The family finances of 3 professors had already completely collapsed without them knowing, with negative net assets and some even owing hundreds of millions.

Regarding this, the University of Tokyo was very tough; the elite of the Faculty of Law were all dispatched, and as long as a professor wanted a divorce, the University of Tokyo stated it would do its best to help them win the divorce lawsuit and protect their property as much as possible; if they did not want a divorce, the University of Tokyo would also assist them in family wealth restructuring and property division.

Looking at the lists published by the University of Tokyo, the whole of society was shocked.

One professor's wife had spent over 350 million yen on male Idols from the Kansai Johnny's Office over the past ten years, specifically renting a house for this purpose, filling a 100-square-meter house with all kinds of albums, merchandise, videotapes, clothes, cheering towels, light boards, glow sticks, buttons, photo books, and magazines of SMAP, V6, Kinki Kids, KAT-TUN, Arashi, Kanjani Eight, and Tackey & Tsubasa.

Besides this, there were several professors' wives who had been spending lavishly on hosts for a long time; the wife of one Professor Inaba had spent tens of millions of yen on a host named "Roland" in two years, yet to save money, she fed her husband a Korean state banquet at home (mixed grain rice + kimchi + pickled radish + vegetable salad + mixed pickles + tofu soup), calling it eating vegetarian for good health.

Long-term vegetarianism led to this Professor Inaba suffering from malnutrition and being hospitalized frequently.

It was simply heartbreaking for those who saw it and tear-jerking for those who heard it.

The various data and accounts published by the University of Tokyo instantly shifted everyone's focus; Professor Tsuda changed from a perpetrator to a victim, and the whole of society set off a great discussion about "housewives," "salary surrender," and "marriage phobia."

On the day of the press conference alone, a large number of single-income men in Tokyo took this opportunity to audit their accounts, and at least 700 single-income families discovered serious problems with their family accounts that day, directly calling the Faculty of Law consultation hotline 114-514-1919810 provided by the University of Tokyo in the announcement.

This craze then spread from higher education institutions like the University of Tokyo to all of Japan.

The National Great Audit!

And that day, websites like 2CH started an even larger-scale discussion.

The comment from netizen "Lengku Xiaoeiyu" received the most likes: "I think we must admit a fact: for a normal woman to raise one or two normal children who are already in school alone, the workload is seriously undersaturated. The group of so-called 'full-time housewives' deliberately avoids this fact, which is the root of their twisted sense of value."

"Is housework really that hard? It might have been true in the 60s or 70s, when everything had to be done by the wives themselves, but now, there are washing machines for laundry, rice cookers and induction cookers for cooking, vacuum cleaners for cleaning, and water heaters and instant boilers for boiling water. Full-time wives have long been liberated from the heavy work of the past thanks to electrical appliances; they have a large amount of time to engage in other things, such as social cheating, chasing Idols, or FX (lol)."

"I think the root of the tragedy of Tsuda's Wife is this kind of inequality. The husband earns big money outside, but she herself is very idle, and she also knows she is idle, so she adds drama to herself and engages in moral kidnapping, wanting to speculate in FX to prove her ability, relying on the vast amount of unplaced time to complain and speak everywhere to master the hegemony of public opinion, forcing her husband and children to admit that she also has important contributions. But justice is in the hearts of the people; in the end, she couldn't even convince herself, and she ruined a whole family."

This post easily received hundreds of thousands of likes on the website.

"What is the value of a full-time wife anyway? Is it to enjoy the husband's support as a matter of course?"

"You can't say that; for the work intensity of a Tokyo University professor, a full-time wife is necessary, right?"

"What necessary? Our country has always been too lenient toward women!"

"My mother is a full-time mom, I don't allow you to say that about her! You can't generalize; aren't there many excellent full-time mothers?"

"Beware of massive individual cases."

"Perhaps we should indeed reflect on whether it is necessary for husbands to surrender their income in this new era."

"There was never any reason to surrender income in the first place. A traditional wife should indeed manage the household, but does a traditional wife still exist in Japan today? You can't call yourself a traditional wife only when you demand the surrender of income, and then emphasize modern gender liberation when you need to fulfill the duties of a traditional wife, right?"

"Ueno Chizuko's feminism really turns wherever it goes into a pile of dung!"

The subsequent arguments easily reached tens of thousands of replies.

The whole topic rushed toward gender opposition and could not be stopped at all.

At the same time, another netizen, "Xiaoxinmingmiao," also posted another thread.

"At the end of the day, it's just that Professor Tsuda earns too little. Let me do the math: Professor Tsuda's publicly announced annual income is 15 million, and after deducting various taxes, the three major pensions, and commercial childcare life insurance, he gets about 10 million yen in hand. The rent announced by the University of Tokyo dormitory is 2 million yen a year, which is already considered very cheap. Professor Tsuda's son and daughter's annual tuition and private tutoring expenses are at least 3 million yen, and annual living expenses and car maintenance costs are another 3 million yen. What can he do with the remaining 2 million yen?"

"With a few hobbies and personal enjoyments, this 2 million isn't enough to spend! Why doesn't Professor Tsuda reflect on his own problems? If it weren't for him earning so little, why would Tsuda's Wife go to speculate in FX?"

"As for the other posters here, you don't even earn 10 million a year; what qualifications do you have to criticize full-time wives? You are not worthy!"

"That's right, just thinking about these Japanese men who only earn 3 to 5 million a year having the nerve to come out and criticize full-time wives is truly disgusting."

Clearly, this netizen should be a woman, and it is more likely that she is also a full-time wife.

This quickly triggered an even more violent and fierce war of words.

Everyone even forgot that the Professor Tsuda incident mentioned by Uesugi Muneyuki at the end of the press conference was not necessarily a one-person crime and that someone might have assisted, but there is currently no evidence to prove this, so it was finally ruled out.

"Fire the first shot against being a provider!"

"The Todai Case promotes male awakening: don't be a provider, don't be a Turtle, sweep away the traps, and be yourself again!"

The Japanese gave Uesugi Muneyuki a brand-new title: "Turtle Killer Uesugi!"

(End of this chapter)