Hi, I'm Demetrius Spinrad.

And I'm Isaac Meyer.

And this is the Criminal Records podcast, a podcast about some of history's weirdest crime cases.

So this week we have a real doozy for you guys. This is a case that I wanted to talk about for a long time. If you don't know, so I've been working on a project called the History of Japan Podcast for a very long time.

This was a case I wanted to talk about in the podcast, but once we decided we were going to do criminal records, I figured it's a good one to save because it is quite something.

This is the story of Abe Sada.

So two things to note before we get into it.

First, in this podcast, the pedantic hill that I choose to die on is that we will use East Asian name order.

So the last name comes first, Abe, and the personal name comes second, Sada in this case.

Sometimes you also see it rendered as Sadaco.

The second thing to note, just a heads up.

This episode does include some peripheral mention of sexual assault, though not much detail,

and some somewhat graphic depiction of, to use the technical term,

some very freaky business in the sack.

Oh, absolutely.

Listener discretion is definitely advised in this one.

Yeah, heads up, guys.

So, let's get into it.

So, Abe Sada is born in what we'd call an upper middle class family in Tokyo, the capital

of Japan, in a neighborhood called Kanda.

So Kanda is part of Tokyo's Stamachi.

She's born in 1905, by the way.

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