Sadamichi Hirasawa & The Teigin Incident

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Tokyo, Japan, 1948. A man walks into a bank, announces himself to the manager as an official of the local Government Health Department, instructs the staff to take an inoculation medicine and walks out leaving 12 of them dead from poison. Upon first hearing an overview, this might sound like a somewhat unique, but trivial bank robbery. But this is post-war Japan, a country with many secrets and a population with many grievances. SOURCES: Gold, H. (2011) “Japans infamous Unit 731: Firsthand Accounts of Japans Wartime Human Experimentation Program”. Tuttle Publishing, HK Trestrail, J H. (2000). Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. Web.archive.org. (2019). The Teikoku Ginko Case. [online] Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20071212101703/http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/knight9/teigin.htm [Accessed 9 Oct. 2019]. (Japanese) Gasho.net. (2019). Sadamichi Hirasawa Home Page [online] Available at: https://www.gasho.net/teigin-case/ [Accessed 9 Oct. 2019]. (Japanese) Japantimes.co.jp. (2018) Teigin Incident: 70 Years on , efforts continue to clear late artist’s name in 1948 Tokyo mass murder. [online] Available at https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/02/national/social-issues/teigin-incident-70-years-efforts-continue-clear-late-artists-name-1948-tokyo-mass-murder/ [Accessed 9 Oct. 2019] ------ For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:38.3	Let's crack on with the episode. Tokyo Japan, 1948. A man walks into a bank, announces himself to the manager as an official
0:51.5	of the local government health department instructs the staff to taking anoculation medicine and walks out leaving 12 of them dead from poison.
1:00.0	Upon first hearing an overview, this might sound like a somewhat unique and trivial bank robbery.
1:07.0	But this is post-war Japan, a country with many secrets, and a population with many grievances. This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction. Hello and welcome to Dark Histories. I'm Ben this is season 3
1:28.7	definitely season 3 episode 20 I hope you all doing very well this week's episode, quite excited about.
1:37.2	For a really long time now, I wanted to sort of branch out and do some episodes in more areas than just sort of England and America which is generally
1:46.5	the focus. So I've been kind of keeping an eye on and trying to track down something interesting in other countries and there's
1:55.0	I'm sure there are plenty. It's just actually kind of finding solid sources and stuff in a different
2:00.7	language and particularly in Japan I've been kind looking because I speak
2:06.4	Japanese as a second language so I've been really looking for a long time and I actually
2:11.1	came across this episode,
2:13.0	the story we're going to go in this week,
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