BIRTH(+)FACT(᙮)DEATH(-)

39th year  -  N° 357                 Sunday, 22 December 2024         Antwerpen		
Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Teikoku Ginko

Shiinamachi, Tokyo, Kantō, Japan.

Related events:

  1. Monday 26th of January 1948 (x) — 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery by Tempera painter and presumed mass poisoner Sadamichi Hirasawa
    A man calling himself an epidemiologist arrived at the Imperial Bank, explaining that he was a public health official who had orders to inoculate the staff against a sudden outbreak of dysentery. He gave all sixteen people present a pill and a few drops of liquid. Those present drank the cyanide solution and died while he robbed the bank of 160.000 yen. Hirasawa is believed to have been falsely charged.