since his first trial, but that his attorney had stopped him from telling anyone else. Conflict with Naoko Kikuchi At the first trial of Naoko Kikuchi, who was accused of involvement in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government parcel bombing case, Inoue testified that Yasuo Koike asked him to get the approval of the believers he was helping to see if they were ready to be arrested, and that Inoue got the approval of the two female believers and Nakagawa got the approval of Kikuchi. He also testified that she was not surprised when Inoue showed Kikuchi the explosives and offered words of condolence. On June 30, 2014, the Tokyo District Court ruled that Inoue's testimony was credible and that it was based on the fact that he was aware that Kikuchi was going to commit the crime. On June 30, 2014, the Tokyo District Court found Inoue's testimony credible and sentenced Kikuchi to five years in prison. Later, the Tokyo High Court of the second instance, in its judgment on November 27, 2015, stated that Inoue's testimony was "unnaturally detailed and specific, while many people's memories of that time are vague," and that its credibility should be carefully judged. According to the results of the fact-finding investigation in the second trial, Inoue and others were found to have concealed the purpose of their activities from two female believers who had been coming and going to the room in question (the hiding place in Hachioji City) in other important roles, and Kikuchi was only an assistant of Masami Tsuchiya in the Kushitigarbha building, not a subordinate of Inoue, and was in the position of assistant master, two levels above ordinary believers in the cult. Therefore, Nakagawa's testimony was more credible than Inoue's testimony, and the court annulled the five-year imprisonment sentence for Kikuchi in the first trial and rendered another acquittal. In December 2017, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the decision and acquitted him. After his acquittal and release, Kikuchi wrote an article titled "Yoshihiro Inoue's Lies (1) to (5)" in his blog, "Because the Deeper the Darkness, the More Stars You See." Other cases In addition, Inoue and Nakagawa are at odds over who had the raw materials for the sarin used in the sarin gas attack on the subway (the Jiflo issue). Nakagawa revealed at the time of Inoue's first trial that the sarin materials were stored at the hideout