Showing posts with label 1968. Show all posts
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Thursday, 11 December 2014

Japan's biggest heist - The 300 million yen robbery, Tokyo 1968

On December 10, 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.

ON A rainy morning in December 1968, what seemed to be a police motor cycle screeched to a halt in front of a Tokoyo Bank car, just outside Japan's biggest prison.  The rider of the Yamaha motorbike wearing a police uniform, told the men there had been an explosion at a branch manager's