I received a phone call from the person in charge at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, to whom I made a request for information disclosure, stating that they would be able to send me the documents today.

I was prepared for it to take a long time, since they had to create a document that didn't exist in the first place, however...

Nevertheless, I'm very grateful for their careful follow-up.

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While I'm glad for their kindness, I'm getting a little worried.

The reason for this response is that I think there are three possible cases.

(1) Basically, the person in charge at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is kind.

(2) Many private citizens who request disclosure of information are difficult, so they have the know-how to deal with them.

(3) A guy who writes a column like this (Ebata) can be a pain in the ass if they piss him off.

I hope it's (1) above, but if it's (3), I'm a little sad.

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Oh, there may be the fourth case.

(4) They want Ebata to disrespect "political organizations that fail to submit their political fund balance reports online" with all his might.

Yeah, that's a possibility.

"It's not good for the government to embarrass a political group, but if a civilian writer (Ebata) can do it, so much the better"

This is a win-win situation for the government and me.

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In this way, I think it is the duty of senior citizens like me to keep an eye on analog and analogous political organizations.