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podcasts. Hello, and welcome to the history of Japan podcast, episode 265, The House Always Wins.

This week, I want to tell a story that is just too good not to tell.

Thanks to my new work on criminal records, check it out if you haven't done so already.

I've been doing more and more research into true crime cases, and after coming across

this case, I knew I wanted to do it.

The only problem is that the case itself is unsolved, which meant that for the purposes of criminal

records, there's no criminal to profile.

But it's a fascinating case, and it's related to Japan, and wouldn't you know it, I know just the perfect podcast for something like that.

So our story begins with one Kashiwagi Akio, born in 1937 in Fuji-Oshida, Yamanashi prefecture, pretty much directly to the east of Mount Fuji itself.

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