The Teigin Incident: A Fake Health Official Got 16 People to Drink Poison, and 12 Died

Unclosed | True Crime · Nov 7, 2026 · 29m

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A little after three on the afternoon of January 26, 1948, inside a bank branch in Toshima, a ward in Tokyo, sixteen people drank the same liquid. Twelve of them never got up again. The youngest of the sixteen was just eight years old. Almost seven months later, police arrested a man and got him to sign a confession, and a court sentenced him to death.

This episode is about Japan's Teigin incident. A man wearing a white armband walked into the bank and handed over a business card identifying him as a technical official with the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In front of…