The Teigin Incident: 12 Poisoned in a Tokyo Bank, and a Death Sentence Never Carried Out

In 1948 a calm man in a white armband walked into a Tokyo bank with no weapon. 16 people drank his medicine. 12 died. In January 1948, a man posing as a public-health official talked a Tokyo bank's staff into drinking a liquid he called preventive medicine. 16 people swallowed it and 12 died, yet he walked out with less than a third of the cash in the building. A painter was sentenced to death and spent 32 years on death row without a single Justice Minister signing the order. This video sets aside the guilty-or-innocent argument and follows one detail instead: what the poison was called before there was a suspect, compared with what it was called after, and how that quiet change of name points back to Japan's wartime chemical-weapons program. Sources: Wikipedia (en): Sadamichi Hirasawa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadamic... Kotobank: 帝銀事件 (Teigin Incident): https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B8%9D%E9... FCCJ Number 1 Shimbun: Toxic Enigma: https://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimb... Meiji Univ. Noborito Peace Museum: The Teigin Incident and the Army Noborito Institute: https://www.meiji.ac.jp/noborito/even... --- Note: This video uses AI-generated narration and visual elements. All factual information is verified through multiple credible sources. Speculation is presented as "some believe..." and does not assert guilt of any individual. [Music Credit] "Echoes of Time" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... 0:00 Intro 1:59 A City That Would Believe Anything 4:32 The Man With the White Armband 8:02 The Rehearsals Nobody Stopped 12:25 The Liquid That Changed Its Name 15:55 One of Eight Cards 21:39 The Signature Nobody Would Write