Changing the mentality of the security forces might take time, but a government that wants to build credibility on human rights and reform has to start sometime and somewhere with concrete steps.
Stencilled on to walls, etched into glass, printed on beer mats and painted on to escalators, his distinctive blocky font spells out cryptic messages that sit somewhere between concrete poetry and graffiti.
Now the guy is claiming to have buried a program from the 2004 Yankees' postseason debacle somewhere in the concrete.
"It rained, and now you have a solid block of concrete somewhere where it's extremely difficult to get in to break it up.
Somewhere under the concrete, the tower blocks, the monorails and the overpasses, lie other versions of Japan: the culmination of thousands of years of island history, presided over by an imperial family that still traces its descent in an unbroken lineage from the sun god, Amaterasu.
Somewhere, deep in his concrete labyrinth, the dictator is smiling.
I've just been interrogated by the Stasi in a concrete bunker somewhere beneath Berlin.
He guessed that it was to his right, hidden behind the tall concrete buildings, somewhere in the night.
Brearley said much industry had been taken out of the area, and London had to get its cement and concrete from somewhere.
Only if, somewhere beneath all that concrete, they could hear another knock.
