Teigin Incident: 70 years on, efforts continue to clear late artist's name in 1948 Tokyo mass murder
Marking the 70th anniversary of one of Japan's most compelling mass murder cases, a Tokyo gallery is showcasing 21 paintings made by a death row inmate who was convicted of the Teigin Incident, with the aim of providing the public with a look into ...
On Jan. 26, 1948, a man claiming to be a public health official walked into a branch of Teikoku Ginko (Imperial Bank) in Tokyo's Shiinamachi district and told 16 clerks and customers dysentery had broken out in the neighborhood. He told them to drink a ...
Uninformed 'confession' hoped to clear late Teigin Incident suspect
Sadamichi Hirasawa was sentenced to death in part because of a one-off admission that he killed 12 people with poison and took money from a branch of Teikoku Ginko (Imperial Bank) in Tokyo in 1948. The Teigin Incident, as the crime became known, was ...
Death of inmate's adoptive son ends 'Teigin' retrial bid
The curtain has effectively come down on the most mysterious mass-murder case in postwar Japan, with numerous questions left unanswered. Takehiko Hirasawa, 54, who sought a posthumous retrial for his adoptive father, Sadamichi Hirasawa, was recently found dead in a home in Suginami Ward, Tokyo. Sadamichi ...
