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=== Chiaki ===
{{nihongo|'''Chiaki'''|千秋}} is a woman appearing exclusively in {{yoigoshi}}. She joins a suicide party traveling to [[Hinamizawa]] in June 2006. Her reasons for committing suicide are unknown, though she hints that it is related to her husband's death. Her deceased husband left her with a large sum of money that she intends to bring with her to return to him in the afterlife. She commits suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning. However, [[Akira Otobe]] steals Chiaki's cash card after the party commits suicide. At the end of ''Yoigoshi-hen'', he returns the cash card to her body.
=== Koizumi ===
{{nihongo|'''Koizumi'''|小泉}} is an aged military officer who befriended [[Hifumi Takano]] during World War II. Koizumi was an early supporter of Hifumi's research, however pressures from the government resulted in its ridicule and dismissal. In {{matsuribayashi}}, Koizumi's death before Showa 58 weakens the government's interest in [[Hinamizawa Syndrome]]. It is revealed that many in power do not favor of the research. In light of the UN Biological Weapons Convention, [["Tokyo"]] concludes that secret research on bacteriological weapons would tarnish Japan's international image, and that decide that their funding could be invested more usefully. [[Miyo Takano]] desperately tries to convince them about the importance of the research and the revolutionary effect it would have on the scientific community, but she suffers humiliation similar to her grandfather when they declare her previously lauded theories to be too farfetched. They ultimately order her to finish her research, develop a proper cure for the illness within three years, and then disband the Irie Institution and destroy all evidence of the research. These events psychologically corner Takano and motivate her to become pivotal in "Tokyo's" political conspiracy, which ultimately results in the [[Great Hinamizawa Disaster]].
=== Machi ===
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