EP226 - Sixteen Cups Of Medicine: The Teikoku Bank Poisoning
Just after closing time on a January afternoon in nineteen forty-eight, a man wearing an epidemic-prevention armband talked sixteen employees of a Tokyo bank into drinking his preventive medicine; twelve of them never got up. The police arrested a celebrated painter, drew out a confession, and sent him to death row, where he waited thirty-two years while every justice minister in Japan refused to sign his warrant. What follows is the story of the country's most disputed conviction, and of a poison that may never have been identified at all. If you enjoy the show and want to support it, you…
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