This file was a memo that Atsuaki Gunji

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Furthermore, non-career bureaucrats from all ministries began to search for the documents. When it comes to the work of bureaucrats, career bureaucrats tend to get all the attention, but the abilities of the non-career bureaucrats who are in charge of the practical work cannot be underestimated. It is customary that ministers, administrative vice-ministers, and chief cabinet secretaries have no say in the personnel decisions of non-career bureaucrats, and the discretion is left to the "bosses" of the non-career bureaucrats. No matter how talented a career bureaucrat is, if he or she behaves in a way that belittles non-career bureaucrats, they will end up with subordinates who can't do their jobs and will drop out of the race for promotion. Japan's administrative organization can only function with the support of non-career bureaucrats.

At the end of 1995, under the orders of the non-career "bosses" remove background image of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the entire ministry began a frantic search for information on drug-induced AIDS. The determination of Minister Morii and Director-General Araga got the non-career workers moving.

However, on January 11, 1996, the new year came and Prime Minister Murayama resigned, leading to the formation of the Hashimoto Cabinet. Minister Morii resigned and Suga became Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Even after the Minister changed, the search for documents continued. Finally, in February, one of the bureaucrats found the "Gunji File." Many people may have seen the word "AIDS" handwritten in ballpoint pen on the spine in news footage from that time. The file was discovered behind a shelf in the basement storehouse of the Health and Medical Affairs Bureau, far from the Pharmaceutical Affairs Bureau. It had apparently been left behind behind a shelf when the government moved from an old wooden building to the current Joint Government Building No. 5.

The head of the biological products division at the time of the drug damage incident, had compiled privately. The file was not numbered and was clearly not an official document. At the time of its discovery, Vice-Minister Hiroshi Tada and Chief Cabinet Secretary Takehiko Yamaguchi (who died in the 2008 serial attack on the home of the former Vice-Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare) felt that the documents needed to be analyzed and went to report to the newly appointed Minister Suga to bring them to a Cabinet meeting.