D-0008 That password changed last week
Kanazawa
Observation Period
around the winter of 2004 〜 around the spring of 2007
// Overview
Households that fixed a password with a child staying home alone were, it seems, not unusual in those days. In one such household, the rule is said to have been that when family or relatives came by, they would say the password from outside before the door was opened. Several times, a late-afternoon caller said the password just as the rule required — and the password, when the family was asked about it afterward, had usually turned out to have been changed a little while before. The door was never once opened. What survives are notes from an interview with the person themselves, several copied volumes of the kitchen message notebook, copies of a relative’s postcards, and a few other items.
Materials on File
- F-0029 intact Interview with someone who made a point of not learning the passwords
The mid-2020s (per when the interview was conducted)
(Said to be transcribed from a recording of the interview. Of the questions, only their gist was kept when the…
- F-0028 partial A copied message notebook where only the word in the corner gets no reply
From the autumn of 2003 to the spring of 2007 (as far as the copies go)
(Copied as the pages appear. Dates are left as written.) [First notebook. The cover reads "Messages 2003.11-".…
- F-0027 intact Postcards from someone who was taught the password and still wasn't let in
From the autumn of 2004 into the winter of the following year (per seasonal references in the text)
(Said to be copies of the text of three postcards, from the same sender to the same recipient.) (First postcar…