How 1 Business Card Killed All 12 Employees of a Bank
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In 1948, 12 people were murdered in cold blood at a bank after a long day of work after being given medicine by a doctor, marking the Teikoku Ginko case the deadliest bank heist in history. The culprit was equipped with no weapons, just one business card, and a handful of pills. The business card started a manhunt in Tokyo and the rest of Japan, leading to even more questions. Let’s get into it!
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not fair, he had silent assassin on, he knew this is a vanilla lobby not cool bro >:(
Just to let yall know, the sponsor is a scam, I forgot who did it but some youtuber did the research and found out this lord/lady thing is a scam cuz you don't actually own the land or anything.
Scott shafer! And I’m glad to see someone else point this out
Thank you!
LegalEagle pointed it out as well
The same business owners of Kamikoto knives as well.
Yeah no one reputable uses it anymore thankfully and they also run the knife scam as well I feel sorry for anyone who actually bought the knifes or peice of paper
Imagine the relief of the person who wasn't there because they were only a part time employee.
Sadly, they could also end up with survivors guilt
Or the person that called in sick?
@@NinJestre it would be even worse when someone you know took your shift.
@@breadisyummy_ Yea, and honestly the chance that you didn't know them is slim
Good luck being a part-time employee in Japan at the time.
Out of all of this, I'm most surprised by the fact that 95 out of 96 of the people the doctor handed out cards to both had a solid alibi, and also still retained possession of the card
Japan has this tradition of exchanging contact card and save keep them
Youd be surprised, I'm not even japanese and I have business cards from random people I met years ago stuffed in my wallet
It's a method of connection and a medical one at that. people might think it will be useful when they need medical help in the future. unfortunately, the killer finds it helpful in a horrifying way.
Business cards are taken very seriously in Japan. It's not unusual for business people to have special cases just for holding them.
I manage to keep all the business cards handed out to me all because once I slip it into my wallet, I'd forget all about it until months or years later when I have to organize my wallet
6:31 shout out to the skeptical bank manager that accidentally had saved his and his employees lives.
Very smart man!!
It's sort of sad that they could never properly confirm it was him, it really makes you wonder if a killer was roaming free and they trapped an innocent man
Unlikely in the extreme though. Notable evidence is the fact that of all the people who were given one of the doctor's business cards, he was the *only one* who no longer had it.
He matched the description, he suddenly came up with an unexplained cash infusion and he'd lied to his wife of what he'd been up to.
And oh yeah, he confessed.
It's actually a major problem in the Japanese law system: intimidation, forced confessions, and the like. How do you think they have such a high conviction rate? Persona 5 is one of the few Japanese-produced pieces of media willing to shine a light on it.
Sadly we got presidents who are legit murderes. Ofc not only roaming but controlling our economy and lives.
@@dylanattix2765 Yeah.
P5 and, surprisingly, the Ace Attorney series shine a massive spotlight on the judicial system of Japan.
@@dylanattix2765 Lots of people convicted for the same crime too.
Later evidence comes showing someone is innocent like video proof and they still end up serving the sentence along with the person that actually did the crime.
Because admitting the government made a mistake goes against their society so innocent people may as well suffer.
Heist movies: if all goes to plan we will get the money and no one has to get hurt...
Real life: let's just poison all of them.
Lightning Round version: It never goes smooth in the movies
im genuinely happy that this incident had survivors, but the rest of this story is super sad
I wouldn't like to survive such attack, live would be miserable after that
It’s amazing how naïve people were back then. I’m honestly surprised they just trusted this guy without question, and that at least one or more didn’t wait for others to take the “medication” first before swallowing it themselves.
Imagine if something like this happened today, of course people wouldn't get easily fooled by something that clearly isn't working.
@@finecinematix5242 considering people cant figure out how to use doors or shopping carts no I doubt it severely
@@SSNNPBCC doors and shopping carts are complicated, they should require a license to operate
Japan’s never been great at the whole standing out as an individual, even today its taboo
You would be surprised, some folks and cultures, follow apparent authority no questions asked!!!🙏😢⚖️🤔
One thing they forgot to do:
They never investigated the time the painting was sold, where it was sold, which would give a time frame of where he would be.
And since they do know it was sold, they could track down the buyer, which would be able to also give a time frame of where he was located at the time.
im pretty sure they did, not mentioned in the video
What this guy did to bank employees is INSANE, incredible that they would just go along with a random person claiming to be a doctor. Wouldnt catch me drinking "medicine" from a rando nobody doctor.
Herd mentality. Not all of the banks did though.
@@crim7ind All you'd need is the main man to buy into it; all others are conditioned to follow.
He died in what, '87? My grandparents I think were a little younger than him then, but I've found the tendency to just trust medical ppl is typical of their generation. That said, even now people tend to trust authority figures. There's whole psychology devoted to studying that.
Did you willingly get vaccinated? Same thing
@@kyrab7914 Yes they trust them even when they are required to go against their own morals or understanding of right and wrong to obey them
On the name card at 0:21, the small Japanese text in the bottom says "Not a fake doctor" (偽医者ではない) which is kinda funny, nice Easter Egg.
That's Epic. Thanks for the translation.
When you refresh at the exact right second
Japan seems like such a more trusting society than ours. I can’t see this scheme ever working in America.
People have a hard time trusting vaccines from doctors in the US, so there's no chance that people would drink mystery liquid from a strange man.
Back in the 50s or 60s when people still trusted the government (for lack of evidence to the contrary) it might have.
@@RemoWilliams1227
definitely would have worked guaranteed back then
@@_Circus_Clapped_ I think so too.
You're giving us medicine? IN AMERICA? FOR FREE? I'm calling the police, there's definitely something going on
Seems to be one of them cases of people blindly obeying an authoritative individual when they present themselves as such, aking to one of those electric shock experiments they did in the US, as to whether the man they imprisoned was guilty, we'll never know, legacy cases like that are just too cold to work on...
Very true. Just like the movie "Compliance" which is based on true stories.
Originally I saw pins instead of pills so I was thinking this video was gonna be about a guy with 16 grenades and it took like 5 minutes to realize what it actually said
How a man robbed an entire bank using 16 pins... 16 pin numbers to be exact 😂
@@KimiHayashi a man in Australia did "steal" money from an ATM machine after he found out that an error occurs at an exact time of the day. So you could say he robbed a bank with PIN numbers
It's possible he was straight up framed. He seems like a perfect guy for just that, a very identifiable scar on his chin and the mole.
how could he have possibly been framed did the guy put on movie makeup?
@@ByPaiNFull yeah thats entirely possible
So, how did he end up with that check? How did he get all that money?
How did he write the book in the prison?
@@Johnny-tw5pr
I'm sure if he asked for paper to write on that it would not be denied him.
a scar and a big mole was the only identified features... which is very easy to stage up even in that time. not to mention the police force would need a scapegoat in order to calm the masses
"the powerhouse of the cell, as we're legally required to call it"
I laughed IRL
I am curious why they are legally required to call it that?
@@tigerlily2941 memes
@@tigerlily2941
We're not. It often is called that though more accurately it is a power generator, not power storage.
@@tigerlily2941 either he was told by his coworkers to say this, or we would hold him accountable for not saying it. Hence “legally”, but not really.
@@sunburst3476 thank you
gives me a weird feeling knowing this wasn't proven beyond reasonable doubt..
Fun fact ..in Japan if you are charged with a crime you are as good as guilty.
Fun fact .. no one asked
@@ionservices deal with it
@@ionservices aw muffin
@@ionservices funnier fact...now we know you're an azzhat. I bet all u do is play video games and troll people online. And I bet u live with mommy in the basement. Probably just a baby anyway. If so grow up.
@@ionservices no one was answering a question
This was morbidly smart. Nobody can testify against you if your victims are dead. Sounds like something out of a movie.
It's this type of story that makes me question whether the death penalty is a punishment that should be considered by humans for humans.
There's always the chance that the person is innocent, even if they confess.
I see lots of “This would never had worked in the US” or various exclamations of the employees were too trusting. Keep in mind this was in 1948. So post WW2 where most countries had large nationalism movements where the government and military were practically worshipped and no access to the internet or even TV in many cases, people are less trusting now because we have more access to information that isn’t propaganda. Let’s not blame the victims because that is essentially what you’re doing when you say “That would never work here” or blaming it on collectivism.
Thank you for posting things that sometimes give me panic attacks
You should stop watching them then 😂
Then don't watch it
now you know not to drink liquid from a random guy if you work in a bank!
sorry these people are so… the way they are :(
I love that Grill and Chill are in this one, I’ve missed them :)
Love the detail of offering and receiving the business card with 2 hands. Especially in Asia this is seen as respectful.
I never eat anything people bring to work, i could not eat anything what some stranger gives me. You never know what they put in, and we had bad case at work when employee put something in cookies. After that i have big trust issues, and luckily i refused those cookies
Im curious what was in the cookies? Also why someone did that? I hope it wasnt too serious for the people who ate them
This was like 70 years ago so...
Some day, I'm going to write a crime novel where the bad guy gets away. How? *He doesn't keep anything used in the commission of the crime!*
It's a ridiculous notion, but I might be able to pull it off
not that ridiculous. GTA heists have been following this philosophy for a while now.
Rule #1: Don't write down your crimes.
Rule #2: Don't tell anyone about your crimes.
Rule #3: Don't involve anyone else in your crimes.
Rule #4: BURN EVERYTHING you use in your crimes.
Rule #5: Don't return to the scene of or remain involved in the aftermath of your crimes.
Casual Criminalist, teaching non-criminals how to criminal better than actual criminals, because them crims be idjits.
@@bishoukun Rule #6:Change your appearance.
It was so nice to see Grill and Chill but I really liked when they were part of the story and not just advertising for a sponsor. Please bring them back.
Ya same
same
It is actually pretty commonly believed he was innocent, to the point it even comes up immediately in the first few lines of reading if you Google him. It's hard to say for sure but very interesting
If he was coerced into a confession then yeah it's quite possible, however it was a bit convenient that his wallet containing the card was stolen and he got a large sum of money around the same time.
@@vgamesx1 only a theory, but it could be a donater of him (both)
When it comes to Japan, I lean on the side of the suspect. Especially in the case of a retracted confession. I don't know if it's still the case but in the past Japan seems to have had a worse justice system than the US.
it still does, they have high case solve rates cause they throw out tough cases
@@kaiseremotion854 I'm no expert but isn't that kinda cheating? "Look, we solved a very high percentage of all cases we could solve!"
@@alexanderk.6869 well yea, its all for the image of having a "safe" place and "good" police
On a more serious note: pretty much all the evidence seems circumstancial. He didn't get a fair trial.
On a lighter note I chuckled at the fat bird reference.
This was informative if sad.
You guys should make the fish tank boi that I can’t spell ever so slightly bigger every episode, then make the tank explode one day and act like nothing happened
Bean?
@@AssistantCoreAQI ye Isn't he a tardigrade?
Not one but TWO banks let an unannounced man posing as an official/doctor admin "medication" immediately before closing time that must be served in tea cups as two doses for dysentery?? I'm speechless... what about any of that was not a red flag that should have immediately lead to the dude being kicked out of the bank?
"Using 16 pills"
Me after +100 hours of binding of Isaac: Tears up tears up tears up tears u-
The amount of stories that inevitably come back to "the Japanese judicial system potentially failed society in this instance" is staggering
They may dress like us westerners and even use our tech and tools, but culturaly they are still backwards in most regards. So is the case for most of africa and asian.
We may not yet be perfect, but these countries are decades if not centuries behind
"Honey Bunny: You want to rob banks?
Pumpkin: I'm not saying I want to rob banks, I'm just illustrating that if we did, it'd be easier than what we've been doing."
I luv u honey bunny
Glad to see you're uploading more frequently
I love the way a conspiracy theory develops over time and becomes the default truth in some circles. It just takes a seed of misconstrued doubt.
Me, who vehemently hates tea and is iffy on other medications because I take a specific kind from my own family doctor " yeah..... no. I'd rather the dysentery. "
Nah. For someone who had a complex plan on how to rob a bank, he would conveniently leave clues around him?
what's so complex about straight up murdering employees at the bank?
I thought he ate painkiller meds and was invicible.
I read about this robbery in some book about the occupation of Japan a long time ago; this is the first time I've heard about it since.
Im always so excited when you post 😆😆
That man has some true *vibing* ability to use
Thanks for the videos love them all
Aaah! Finally another light hearted Brew episode!
Thank you for the video!!
I love your vids man keep up the great work
If those crimes were stopped after his capture, it's most likely him that did those crimes. If not, he might not be the criminal.
love the vids keep up the great work brew
12:57 I recognize that clip! It’s from the 1958 short educational film “Keeping Clean & Neat”. The MST3K guys viewed it but I can’t remember what feature film it was paired with. I even remember some of the gags and my family still says them amongst ourselves. “The fun never stops when you’re clean and tidy!”
A great reminder of what the follow the herd culture gets you. Im sure half of those bankers had their doubts but no one wanted to break culture norms and speak up.
He could have easily used something non lethal but chose murder too. Sad.
Do you feel sympathy for the perpetrator?
Good to see the boys!!! Grill and Chill are my favorites
Good videos man!
Yayy a new brew video surely bring joy to my face
My question certainly is where did he get the 2 step cyanide? I would think a regular old artist isn't going to be sophisticated enough to come up with such a plot.
Where’s Detective Conan when you need him 🤔
Given what I know of Japanese 'law', this could of been the guy or the forced a confession out of him. I'm guessing the latter....
I love how the police didnt even try to trace where the artist could have gotten his hands on the chemicals, ignored his alibis, and his claim of being pickpocketed and just charged him str8. Oh well..... looks to me either he was framed and a well plotted out one at that, or that he was just that much of a genius to mastermind this until it looked like he was being framed.
Two times in a row i already knew the story!!
Hey buddy, that's cool
❤️ your channel Brew! 👍😎
Everytime I hear mitochondria, it makes me want to play Parasite Eve 1 again.
There's just something about the way he says: A man! That makes me happy every time
"tack that down as one of the billions of reasons not to smoke" he says as I watch his video with a smoke..but yeah it's bad fer ya don't start people seriously it sucks
one of the best pronunciations of japanese I've heard, thank you for learning it :)
If only I could have sold them the Effie tower or the Brooklyn bridge before they drank that medicine” 😅
you’re an underrated man
“If you come into contact with it, you’re gonna have a bad time”
Undertale fans when bad time:
dodo do do, do do do dododo
Never been this Early to a Brew video.
I like the Lofi playing in the background
Chill with a fascinating story. I need MORE with coffee and I don’t even drink coffee lol
Finally!! Grill and Chill!!! Where have you been?!!! WHERE?!!!!
sometimes being skeptical is good..
Yeeesss I saw this really early this is weirdly awesome
Nice animation update! I see you've learned how to shade.
I love your vids :)
Why didn't they check the fingerprints?
Because it was the 1940s. Detective work then was like.. "ew... blood... somebody get a mop"
Cool vid 👍
Oh I missed Grill and Chill, so glad to see them here
Another good brew today
Maybe we should all wear body cams like police and shop attendents/Security, because it isn't impossible to be setup. Can you imagine being in prison for over 30 years without being guilty?
A lot of ppl have dash cams just to prove sh*t
0:00 what is the background music playing while Brew is explaining?
PSA: If you experience severe symptoms, such as coma, call an ambulance or get to the hospital ASAP.
now thats some detective conan stuff
Goodness. What an evil individual to poison folks just to rob a bank. This is why I have trust issues. I'd never drink anything given to me like that.
Yeah feels kinda crazy that they just drank it without question. Also why the robber didnt use something to just make everyone passout? Well i guess getting such drug might be more difficult than poison even, also less reliable, and the guy who did this likely was complete psychopath that didnt care.
wow, this is crazy ...
Why would anyone trust a random guy when he wasn t even programmed to arrive there for the day?
That's horrifying!
God dang the Japanese is either so peaceful or so horrific. Nothing in between
I’ll make sure if I fall into a coma to tell people I’ve been poisoned
Dark, yes. But a very good stopover and review if the opportunities are worrh all of the hype!
What a terrible way to rob a bank
That sponsor break was uncomfortably spliced into the episode. No transition whatsoever, it completely removed me from story.
I agree, I was put off by that too. Really bad editing choice.
This is easily far more frightening than holding a bank up with a gun.
Please make a video about Howie Mandel's prolapse incident!
Damn that's the most big brained move of the century
Great videos..... I have a question. WTAF is that upside-down cockroach in the fish tank?
finally an advertisement I'm interested in
This video must be the most horrifying video in history