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japan’s greatest unsolved mystery



japan’s greatest unsolved mystery

In 1984, a group of people kidnapped the president of one of the most popular candy companies in Japan. He escaped 3 days later, but this was only the beginning of a campaign of terror against Japanese candy. The kidnappers called themselves the monster with 21 faces. They fed Gleo candy factories on fire and spread rumors of cyanide laced candy, which caused supermarkets to clear their shelves of all Gico products. They blackmailed other food companies for many, but never collected the ransoms. The gang taunted the police by sending them letters, calling them stupid and tax thieves, and giving hints about their identity. The closest the police ever got to a suspect was nicknamed the Foxside Man, who was spotted at a ransom money drop off point. After 17 months of terror, a senior police officer leading the case set himself on fire, overwhelmed by shame and stress. The gang shared their final letter, calling him stupid and sending condolences. Their final words were, “It’s fun to lead a bad man’s life. They were never caught or heard of

i think they were just bored 💅 #japaneseculture #japanesehistory #japantravel

28 Comments

  3. @colesuqs

    Okay of all the ways to kill yourself why in God's name would you pick the most painful one?! The one that could take the longest and give you the most pain, panic,and possibility of not working and just leaving you maimed in pain for another 20yrs?!

  12. @Cats-are-our-lords

    To be honest, japanese police force is very incompetent. They would rather die out of shame than actually do something properly.

    Highest conviction rate should make it obvious how terrible they are at their job. Complacent breeds incompetence at its finest

    My country police, which has less funding, barely any surveillance nor protection can catch a murderer within a day, even if they fled to another province. They caught a suspect fleeing in a hit and run scene in a truck by dogpiling on top of the truck, with nothing but the uniform on their back. No helmets, no protective vests, no guns. Just pure determination

  15. @bigbabado8296

    Kidnapping the CEO of a company and getting a police officer to set themselves on fire but collected 0 ransom money? It was either a rival company hiring someone to terrorize their competitors and only stopped because of the officer incident or just some dudes who were insane and bored 😅

  20. @damedesuka77

    21 mensou?

    Wait, I swear I've read a similarly named criminal in 1990s-2000s detective manga. Was it Conan? Or Kindaichi?

    Now I know the source of inspiration for that naming.

  21. @TsumiPla

    And that is essentially the reason behind Japan's ridiculous practice of putting individual/small numbers of a snack (chocolate, cookie, rice cracker) in their own plastic bag, putting those plastic bags into a plastic tray, then putting that tray into yet another plastic outer bag to hold it all.