appealed. Moreover, Tomomitsu Niimi also began to testify that Inoue was in a very important position in the sarin gas incident, and that he was happy immediately after the bombing of Shimada Yumi's house, saying, "I did it!" Even before this, Yoshihiro Ida, Inoue's subordinate and driver, testified that Inoue found Sakamoto Tsutsumi "stupid" and "poached the whole family because it was bad karma," and that he found the victim of the pharmacist lynching and murder case "very dirty" and "very decisive" and interesting, and Seiichi Endo testified that "Inoue lies a lot" and that "Asahara told me that Ananda deceives even the god of death." Inoue's position as the spearhead in the pursuit of Asahara was shaky. On May 28, 2004, the Tokyo High Court upheld his conviction for the arrest and confinement manslaughter in the Meguro notary public office case, and found that he played an important role in the indiscriminate mass murder of people as a general coordinator, although he was not the on-site commander of the sarin gas attack. On December 10, 2009, his appeal was dismissed, and on January 12, 2010, his motion to amend the judgment of the appellate court was dismissed. The death penalty was confirmed. This is the ninth person to be sentenced to death in the Aum Shinrikyo case. In the letter, Inoue wrote, "I am keenly aware once again that death is equal for all living things," and "Now is the time for me to live a life that sees the truth of life and death. If you have lived to be a hundred years old but have not seen the truth of life and death, you will not be able to live a day longer than those who have seen the truth of life and death." Death row Notary Public's Office Manager murder In 2011, after the death penalty was confirmed, Inoue sent a letter to the eldest son of the victim (office manager) in the case of the arrest and confinement death of the office manager of the notary office through a concerned person. The letter stated that the cause of the chief's death was a side effect of anesthesia, which was not true, and that Tomomasa Nakagawa (a doctor at the time) may have intentionally killed him. However, it was snowing heavily on the day of his death, and considering the time when Ida arrived at Kamikyu,