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Bizarre Incidents From Japan's Past: Volume One
2022
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History is often stranger than it seems… An infatuated man desperate to cure an incurable disease turns to the unthinkable, but that’s only the start of his very long, very bizarre crime spree. Over 2,000 men gathered to take part in the largest street battle in Japanese history… all because of an electric plant? And why didn’t the police stop them? A young couple stole from the university they worked for, not bothering to hide their faces, and then pretended to be foreign when caught… But would it work? Bizarre Incidents from Japan’s Past looks at numerous crimes, events, and incidents from Japan’s past that you may never have heard of before. Street battles, animal attacks, prison escapes, fights against the government, yakuza revenge, and much more. Click that buy button right now and dig into some of the strange, bizarre, and terrifying tales that Japan’s past has to offer.

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Tara A. Devlin
Tara A. Devlin
Author · 23 books
Tara A. Devlin studied Japanese at the University of Queensland before moving to Japan in 2005. She lived in Matsue, the birthplace of Japanese ghost stories, for 10 years, where her love for Japanese horror really grew. And with Izumo, the birthplace of Japanese mythology, just a stone’s throw away, she was never too far from the mysterious. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com and translations of Japanese horror at kowabana.net.
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