Day after day, the papers are alive with accounts of an apparition at Ryouunkaku. Rokurou, a man who sees to the running of Asakusa, commissions Takuboku to find the truth of the matter. On his way to the scene, Takuboku reunites with an old friend, former newspaper reporter Yamaoka. Takuboku soon sees that Yamaoka is somehow connected to the ghost, but Yamaoka walks away, leaving behind only the words "throat moon." Then, magic lantern projectionist Matsukichi is killed. Two months earlier, Matsukichi had come across a woman who had been sexually assaulted. Takuboku starts looking to see if the two cases might be related.
That's why the big papers had 
no reason to write about it.
لهذا لم يكن أمام الصُّحف الكبرى
أي سبب يدفعها للكتابةِ عنه
Deswegen hatten die bekannten Zeitungen
auch keinen Grund darüber zu schreiben.
Por eso los grandes periódicos
no lo cubrieron.
Por eso los grandes periódicos
no lo cubrieron.
d’où l’absence d’articles
dans les grands journaux.
Per questo i grandi quotidiani non ne avevano scritto.
Por isso jornais maiores não viam
motivos para publicar a respeito.
Вот почему крупные газеты 
ничего о нём не писали.