Shocking crimes of postwar Japan

Mark Schreiber

Tuttle Publishing, 1996 - History - 312 pages

When nerve gas was dispersed in Tokyo's subway system in March 1995, Japanese and non-Japanese alike were shocked. Wasn't Japan supposed to be an orderly, peaceful, and above all safe society with virtually no crime?
Not so. Mark Schreiber dispels this stereotype with a fascinating book in which he chronicles some of Japan's most astonishing crimes in the half-century since World War II: a bank robbery and murder in which the killings are carried out by poison; the theft of 300 million yen by a man who is able to peacefully convince four bank employees to step outside of their car for a moment; and, of course, the outrageous activities of Japan's most notorious religious group, AUM Supreme Truth.
The social and cultural circumstances attending many of the crimes are equally bizarre, and Schreiber addresses these, as well. Why did Okubo Kiyoshi's rape victims continue meeting him for dates after he violated them? How did Japanese ethics step in, when the evidence didn't stand on its own, to condemn Miura Kazuyoshi for killing his wife? Why did none of the journalists recording the murder of Nagano Kazuo try to intervene to try to save his life?

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When nerve gas was dispersed in Tokyo's subway system in March 1995, Japanese and non-Japanese alike were shocked. Wasn't Japan supposed to be an orderly, peaceful, and above all safe society with virtually no crime? Not so. Mark Schreiber dispels this stereotype with a fascinating book in which he chronicles some of Japan's most astonishing crimes in the half-century since World War II: a bank robbery and murder in which the killings are carried out by poison; the theft of 300 million yen by a man who is able to peacefully convince four bank employees to step outside of their car for a moment; and, of course, the outrageous activities of Japan's most notorious religious group, AUM Supreme Truth. The social and cultural circumstances attending many of the crimes are equally bizarre, and Schreiber addresses these 

Review: Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan

User Review  - Patrick McCoy - Goodreads

I first learned about Mark Schreiber's book Shocking Crimes of Postwar Japan (1996) from the bibliography of David Peace's postwar Tokyo-based crime novel Occupied City. The crime that Peace ...

Contents

• I: 9
• II: 13
• III: 19
• IV: 28
• V: 44
• VI: 66
• VII: 81
• VIII: 100
• IX: 119
• X: 138
• XI: 158
• XII: 178
• XIII: 198
• XIV: 218
• XV: 237
• XVI: 254
• XVII: 276
• XVIII: 294
• XIX: 310

About the author

A newspaper and magazine columnist, translator and author, MARK SCHREIBER has lived in Asia since 1965, and currently makes his home in Tokyo. He is the author of The Dark Side: Infamous Japanese Crimes and Criminals (Kodansha International, 2001). GEOFF BOTTING is a Canadian who has lived in Japan
since graduating from the University of Victoria in 1986. He has worked as a journalist for the Mainichi Daily News, the Japan Times, NHK (the national broadcaster), and the Kyodo News Agency. He lives in Tokyo. Australian RYANN CONNELL is the Chief Editor of the Mainichi Daily News, a leading
internet source of news about Japan in English. He has lived in Japan for almost twenty years. MICHAEL HOFFMAN, originally from Montreal, Canada, is a freelance writers and translator living in Otaru, Hokkaido. He is the author of four books of fiction, the latest being Nectar Fragments
(Authorhouse, 2006). His website is www.michaelhoffman.squarespace.com. MASUO KAMIYAMA is the pseudonym of a Tokyo-based translator who has written for the Mainichi Daily News since 1985.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Shocking crimes of postwar Japan
• Author: Mark Schreiber
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, 1996
• ISBN: 4900737348, 9784900737341
• Length: 312 pages
• Subjects: History / General