Thank you for your interest in this thread. 
Are you aware of the frequent account suspensions by Niantic management in Japan (and maybe not only in Japan) recently?
We are general users, so we cannot know everything, but we have observed that people who have had their accounts suspended are tweeting about it on X and other social networking sites, and there has been a marked increase, especially in the last two months.
As far as we know, the following people have had their accounts suspended
We do not know what percentage of PGO users use X, but it is reasonable to assume that the number of people whose accounts have been suspended is actually several times higher than the above, including those who do not use X.
We used social networking sites to access these people and interview them about their situations.
We found some strange commonalities.
Surprisingly, most of these individuals had not been sentenced to Strike 1 and were suddenly on Strike 2, a 30-day account suspension.
In addition, account suspensions could be categorized into three main patterns.
- Ineligible Wayspot applications
- Addition of images to existing Wayspot
- Location editing
Regarding #1, our research made us feel that these applied WAYSPOTs were not eligible, but we did not find any clear evidence as to why they were suddenly 2 strikes, rather than false or fraudulent.
In fact, if you search this forum, you will see that the following posts are ineligible Wayspot applications and received a 1st warning.
@Pennsylvania Example
@Examples from the Netherlands
I am very curious as to what might account for this difference.
As for #2, the first warning was not confirmed.
Does anyone know where the ladder strike policy has gone?
And the third pattern.
In our investigation, these location edits were not unwarranted.
In one case, an account was suspended for attempting to correctly move a Wayspot on the street to a building. This was verified by a third party user.
(Of course, they filed a complaint, but you all know the outcome of that complaint, which we won’t mention here because it is beside the point.)
We wondered. Why is this happening? 
We looked a little deeper into the third pattern of location editing.
Then another strange common denominator emerged.
The users who were performing the “location edits” in the above listings were performing one and the same behavior.
That was three attempts to edit the location in the same place.
Specifically, after the first location edit, he (or she) received an email rejection within seconds by a machine learning program (Emily). he (or she) became suspicious and repeated the same position edit two more times.
From this point on, we can only speculate, since we are talking about the internal workings of the system, but the Abuse flag was set for the location edit rejection, indicating that the third rejection may have led to the account suspension action.
Originally, it was recommended that rejected location edits be filed in this community forum.
However, it is a very unfortunate fact that very few users of the game are aware of this.
This ruthless system has resulted in ongoing, false accusations and account suspensions.
Now, let me summarize the strange phenomenon so far.
- (1) For some reason, in Japan, there have been many account suspensions for the second strike without being sentenced for the first strike.
- (2) If an attempt is made to edit the location using in-game functions and is rejected, the account will be suspended (regardless of the correctness of the location edit).
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- The difference in severity of violations is not clearly stated and is opaque. Also, PGO users and Ingress users are treated differently for the same violation.
What are your thoughts on these events?
Our investigation is ongoing, with further hearings. We hope to provide additional information on this thread as soon as we find out more facts.
We look forward to hearing from all of you.
best regards. 
