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Thank you. Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, episode 322, The Heist.

Recently, while doing some work for my other podcast, criminal recordspodcast.com or Facebook.com slash criminal records podcast, I came across a story I'd heard about tangentially before, but which I didn't know that much about.

And the more I read about it, the more I realized that it didn't really fit criminal records, but that I simply had to do an episode on this story because, oh my God. Our story begins in the year 1968, specifically on December 10, 1968,

on the outskirts of Tokyo, specifically in Fuchu, one of the suburbs of Tokyo, to the west of

the heart of the city.

On that date, you see, there was a van full of cash navigating the streets of the city.

But not just for fun, of course, the van was a bank transport full of cash, carrying money

for a specific purpose. That money belonged to the Toshiba Corporation, which was sending the cash to one of its factories

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