The Wakayama Curry Poisoning: Arsenic in a Summer Festival Curry, Four Dead, the Youngest Just 10

Unclosed | True Crime · Nov 1, 2026 · 26m

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On the evening of July 25, 1998, a residential neighborhood in Wakayama City, Japan, held a summer festival, and people lined up for curry and rice. That night, 67 people were taken to the hospital, and four of them could not be saved. Two of the four were children: a sixteen-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy. A little over two months later, police arrested a housewife who lived near the festival grounds.

This episode is about the Wakayama curry poisoning. The defendant was sentenced to death at her very first trial, and the sentence held at every level, all the way up…