On January 26, 1948, someone posing as a health officer entered the Teikoku Bank in a Tokyo suburb and simultaneously poisoned 16 people, 12 of whom died.  After an extensive police investigation, Hirasawa Sadamichi, a tempera painter, was arrested and convicted of the murders.   His guilt was immediately called into question.  While he was never executed for the murders, he did eventually die in … Continue reading Occupied City by David Peace