featuring Joe Swaney from Thinking Sideways podcast and filmmaker Vincent Calderney.

This is The Shocking Details.

Konichiwa, listeners.

Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details.

I'm Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoni.

And this week, we've got another truly shocking mystery from Japan, hence, you can issue one at the beginning there, if you haven't figured that out.

But, well, okay, this one is actually not that shocking.

And no blood, really.

But it's Japan's answer to D.B. Cooper.

Yeah, it's taken on that kind of an errand in Japan.

This is, it was an ingenious caper that netted a very large amount of cash for somebody.

There was a massive police investigation that lasted for years. And in the end,

the cops came up empty-handed. No one has a clue as to the identity of our perp. Decades after.

This story is actually a legend in Japan, kind of like our friend, D.V. People have a sort of a sneaking admiration for our perp who pulled off a brazen, audacious crime without anyone getting hurt and got away clean, just like DB.

This week, we're covering DB Yamashita.

That's not his real name or even a nickname.

I think Joe just made that up, but we don't have any ways to go by, so let's go with D.B.

Yeah, I like D.B. Yeah.

I agree. That's a good one.

DB Yamashita.

So it's December of 1968, and the world was a little bit different in those days.

And at that time, in Japan, a lot of workers were paid in cash, believe it or not, it's kind of wild to me. And this was the case in a Toshiba factory located in Futsu City, which is a

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