Until about ten years ago the Japanese police had a fairly solid record of crime detection. Then things started to go wrong; and for some reason police failures and bungling seemed to coincide with collapse of the Japanese economy.
A good example of the police incompetence is the Wakayama curry-poisoning incident of 25 July 1998. [...]
Archive for March 8th, 2007
Poison in the curry, the chocolate and the cure
Posted in Crime, Japan, tagged Crime, curry, cyanide, Ezaki, Glico, Hayashi, Hirasawa, murder, poison, potassium cyanide, Wakayama on March 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
