The Japanese Curry Festival Massacre: The Woman Who Terrified Japan

In 1998 in Japan, specifically in a village there called Sonobay. Sonobay is an ordinary rural village and its people are simple and kind people. It is similar to the rural village that we have in Egypt. The important thing, sir, is that every year a festival is held in the village of Sonobay. A very large festival is held in a wide area and all the neighboring villages attend. They sit together all day and eat, drink and play. The children also play in the amusement park. And so on. In 1998, this festival was held in the village and all the people were gathered and things were fine and perfect, but in a moment everything changed. Suddenly the residents of the festival began to feel very tired.

In their stomachs and began to fall on the ground one after the other until suddenly 70 people fainted at the same time and in moments dozens of ambulances began to come to the festival and transport the injured to hospitals and the situation changed in a moment from a state of joy to the biggest case in the history of Japan, rather one of the most famous and biggest cases in the world Welcome to the annual festival accident and the woman who terrified Japan Peace be upon you Today's story is somewhat different because this is a mass crime at one time, God willing

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Willa Bina 1998

It was 6:00 PM and 5:00 PM, ambulances arrived at the Suno Bay Festival. When the ambulances arrived, they were shocked by the scene in front of them. Dozens of people were lying on the ground, holding their stomachs and in pain. People were falling to the ground and screaming, and people were vomiting. The situation was chaotic. The paramedics took the injured and took them to the hospital. There were 67 injured people. The doctors immediately received the patients and began examining them. Meanwhile, the police and investigators arrived at the hospital to see the situation and find out what had happened. It is not reasonable or normal for this to happen to 67 people suddenly and at once.

When the police and investigators arrived, they asked the doctors what was wrong. One doctor replied and said, “We suspected it was food poisoning, but food poisoning doesn’t happen that fast and with that number of people. Unfortunately, sir, there is some news. We have four deaths, including a nine-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl. The common factor between these four deaths is that they had stomach pains and then told them, ‘Heart attack.’ When the investigators and officers heard this, they were shocked and suspicious and said that this could not have been an ordinary accident. It was very likely a mass murder, and so they ran out.”

The festival site and they started to search and look for any evidence on the other side, the doctors in the hospital were doing their best to save the patients, trying all ways with them, and the doctors were also surprised, they wanted to know what was the cause of this pain, they were 90% sure that this was a case of mass poisoning, but they did not know how this happened to them and also what type of poison, and indeed, after 36 hours, the doctors reached a conclusion, they discovered that all the patients had eaten curry, a well-known dish called curry, I do not know its ingredients, to be honest, all the patients literally had eaten curry, even the four who died were

In their stomachs and equipment, the curry, so the doctors confirmed that it was the curry that was poisoned. This is the food at the festival that had the poison in it, and they suspected that the poison that was in the curry was cyanide. They were not 100% sure that it was cyanide, but what they were sure of was that the curry was poisoned. Indeed, sir, all these reports reached the police and the investigators who were at the festival site, who in turn began examining all the curry pots that were at the festival and found that there was indeed a large pot in which the curry was cooked and that there was poison in it. Immediately, the police sent experts and began to analyze the poison.

What was in the pot and they discovered that inside it was poison that had no color, taste or smell and this could not be cyanide poison, this was arsenic poison and the police’s suspicions were confirmed when they found a blue paper cup next to the pot and inside this cup was a powder and when they analyzed the powder they found that it was arsenic and this pot of arsenic was put in an amount of arsenic sufficient to kill 1,500 people. If this is not something normal, this must be someone who did this. I want you to focus well on this part of the blue paper cup. After the police reached this news, it spread throughout Japan and the newspapers and the press began to talk about the subject. The world literally turned upside down. Who did this? Who is the person?

Who would have the audacity to harm children and innocent people in a festival like this? The people and the media at the time were pressuring the police to find out the person who did this disaster. There was a really big pressure on the police, so the police started investigating all the people who were at the festival and asked them who was responsible for cooking the curry. The people responded and said that the curry or any dish present in the festival is supposed to be the responsibility of, say 40 people, and they are supposed to cook it six hours before the festival, and when they are done cooking it, they bring it and put it in the middle of the festival, and six policemen are responsible for guarding it. I assumed

They said that the one who did this must have been one of the six people who were guarding the pot. It is impossible for anyone to put poison while they were cooking. 40 people were cooking. It is impossible for anyone to put poison. The one who did this must have been one of those who were guarding the pot, one of the people. He said that this pot was the only one that didn’t have six people. There was only one woman guarding it, and her name was Masumi Hayashi. Masumi, Your Excellency, was the one who was standing next to the pot, taking care of it. She was sitting with a blue paper cup in her hands. The police looked at him and said, “Are you sure of what you are saying?” The man replied, “Yes, she is the only one.”

The police who were sitting all the way interrogated most of the families who were at the festival and confirmed the information before I tell you, sir, what did the police do with Masumi? Who is this woman originally? Masumi Hayashi was born in 1961 in Japan, specifically in an area there called. She was born into a middle-class family. Their situation was good and she grew up and when she reached the age of 19 she worked as a nurse in one of the hospitals. During this period, while she was young and working as a nurse, she met a person 12 years older than her named Kenji. She got to know him and they exchanged words with each other. She used to see him a lot because Kenji used to come to the hospital to take

Medicines with a drug license, this was not for him, he was taking it because he had an ant extermination company. Anyway, despite the big age difference between them, they fell in love and got married. After they got married, Masumi left her nursing profession completely and lived together. She had four children with Kenji. I want you to focus with me on the upcoming events. In the year 1995, three years before the poisoning case. In that year, which is the year 95, Masumi moved with her family to Sunobai Village, the village where the accident happened. They came to this village and lived in it three years before the accident. When they came to the village, they bought the largest house in it, a very huge house with a spacious garden. They lived in the village and it was

Their affairs are fine, but let me tell you that they do not have any friends in the village. They were literally completely isolated, to the point that Masumi did not let her children play in the street, and this was a bit annoying to the villagers because this was something strange to them. There was supposed to be cooperation in a social situation, so this matter was strange to them, and they felt that Masumi was being arrogant and haughty towards them. This made the villagers hate Masumi’s family and hate this house. So, sir, you and I quickly knew who Masumi was and how she arrived in the village. Let us now go back to the incident and what the police did when they found out that Masumi was the one who was guarding the police station.

And when the investigators gathered all the evidence, the blue cup and the locals’ words that Masumi was the one who had the cup, they suspected 70% that she was the one who did this, and news spread all over Japan that the only accused in this case is Masumi, and it is very likely that she is the one who did this. After this news spread, the press and media were literally 24 hours a day in front of Masumi’s house. We are showing you real footage now of how they were sleeping in front of Masumi’s house. During this time, the press would come to her and many interviews were conducted with her, and she was always crying and saying, “I didn’t do anything.” The woman really showed on her face that she didn’t do anything. I don’t know who…

And the one who was saying that, there is a question that will come to your mind now, why didn’t the police arrest her since they suspected her? I will tell you because there is no actual evidence against her. All the evidence that exists is circumstantial evidence, but no one actually saw her putting the poison, and her fingerprints were not on the cup, so the police were waiting for actual evidence to catch her and arrest her. A week passed after these events and there was no progress in the case, so the police had no choice but to get a warrant to search Masumi’s house, and indeed, sir, the police went to Masumi’s house and started searching it. The shock was that the police found a large quantity of arsenic poison in her house, and the composition of the poison that

She was there, she was a perfect match for diabetes, and that's why the police arrested her and took her with them to the name and started investigating her. Masumi was denying all the accusations and she was responding and saying I didn't do anything and the poison we have here belongs to my husband because we have an ant extermination company, but the police didn't believe a word she said and proved the charges against her and built a strong case against her. The case that the police put against Masumi was all built on circumstantial evidence. No one saw her putting the poison, but all the evidence and accusations against her. During the trial, the judge said to the officers, what are the motives that could make this woman do this? You are the builders.

She had a case in front of her and they accused her. What were her motives? They responded and said that all the villagers hated Masumi, so she decided to do this and take revenge on all of them at once. But Masumi defended herself and said, “If I am going to do this, what is the fault of the innocent children who are here?” Two children died and 32 children were injured. The investigators responded and said, “It is not normal because you are a mentally ill woman.” Her trial was very complicated and there was no clear evidence against her. That is why Masumi remained imprisoned from 1998 to 2009. In 2009, her second trial began. Can you imagine that after 11 years they tried her again, and in this second trial…”

She was sentenced to death, but until this day, Masoumi is imprisoned and the death sentence has not been carried out. You will ask me, and I will tell you, do you think this woman is innocent or accused? From my point of view, what I think is that this woman is innocent. I don’t know, but I feel that she is innocent because if this was really the accused, they would have sentenced her to death immediately. If she was the one who did this, the evidence would have been stronger than this, but I believe that the police arrested this woman because of pressure from the press and the people. They took her as a scapegoat.