Some time passed since then and an unspoken tolerance of the redlight district was formed again. That happened about three years ago, and it attracted Makihara and Tsukino. Traveling in haste, Makihara brought Otori and Tsukino brought Okinu from Cranbrook. In addition, Kagawa came with his wife from Calgary, and Yamamura’s Okei also came. As a result, four Japanese-owned caves were established. To count the number of prostitutes, there were Otome and Gotō’s Kitty at Makihara’s; Tsukino’s house had Takagi’s Oyasu; Kigawa’s house had Yoneda’s wife and Kubota’s Rika and another woman, whose English name is Josie; Yamamura’s had Shozo Tsukino’s Otaka, and others.
However, these four houses and seven other houses owned by whites were closed down in September two years ago. Preceding this, a funny comedy happened in relation to Makihara. That is, Otori escaped from Makihara to Cranbrook a month before her contract would expire. She escaped to some western restaurant owned by the Japanese in Cranbrook. But Makihara had embezzled four hundred dollars from Otori. Wanting to get the money back, she asked the restaurant owner to negotiate it with Makihara. Then Makihara had Kigawa travel from Edmonton as Makihara’s representative. Kigawa advised her to return to Edmonton but she did not listen to him. After much ado of negotiation, Asami and Kigawa came to a resolution: she ended up going back to Edmonton by herself and the cash was to be paid two months later. The issue was solved. Otori is now involved with a Chinese man, who has worked in a train as a cook. She was once settled in Hashimoto’s cave in Cranbrook and now occupies a new house built in a new cave district in the same city. There was a time when Komatsu’s wife was housed in Otori’s cave but currently Otori is doing her prostitution business on her own. This Komatsu was a straight man, who used to work at a sawmill in Fernie earlier, but soon after he had his wife from Japan, he started a prostitution business. He is a non-human, a maniacal man of immorality. He is from Yamaguchi Prefecture and his wife was also born in Yamaguchi.