Episode 573 – The Revolutionary, Part 8

For our final episode of this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu faces down with the National Police Agency as he finds himself the prime suspect in Japan’s highest profile criminal case of the 1980s. After he comes out on top, where does he go next? Why, the natural place for any high profile criminal suspect: into media, and then politics!

Show notes here.

Sources

Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.

Miyazaki’s interview with the Financial Times about his experience being a suspect in the Glico-Morinaga case.

Images

An artist’s sketch of the Fox Eyed Man.
Miyazaki Manabu in the mid-2010s, when he was still a political talking head. He would die in 2022.
A Denno Toppato campaign poster–the one that reads “the poison of the Fox-Eyed Man will destroy the poison of the bureaucracy.” Underneath, it says “freedom and hope”, and of course that’s Miyazaki’s head emerging from the Fox-eyed man sketch. Subtle stuff!

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