While the war in Borneo waged for all the world to see, a much more clandestine conflict was occurring on the Japanese mainland. It had been some time since the German Empire had infiltrated Japan with their field agents, many of which were Japanese defectors recruited into the ranks of German Imperial Intelligence for just this purpose.
Linde had plotted long ago to begin counterfeiting Japanese banknotes, and now was the time to implement this plan. A native Japanese man by the name of Yoshida Akihira was currently in a discussion with a group of criminals within the domain of the Shimazu clan while posing as a rogue agent of the Japanese Treasury Department.