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Episode 43: Glico Morinaga Case
In the spring of 1984, someone in Japan decided to go to war with the country's biggest candy companies. Not with bombs, not with a clear and reasonable demand, but with something far more unsettling: a string of theatrical letters, each signed with the name of a fictional villain from a children's novel. They kidnapped a CEO. They set buildings on fire. They placed cyanide-laced candy on supermarket shelves where families shopped with their children. And they spent seventeen months making an entire nation afraid to eat a chocolate bar. They were never caught. This is the story of the Glico…
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