Remembering Kazuo Ishikawa and the Sayama Incident w/ Miho Kim

Miho Kim joins the show to discuss the life of Kazuo Ishikawa, the Japanese criminal (in)justice system, and the Buraku Liberation Movement. Kazuo was a man of the outcaste Buraku origin who was falsely accused of murdering a female high school student in 1963 when he was 24, a case known as the Sayama Incident. Following Kazuo’s arrest, the police lied to him and pressured him to confess to a crime he did not commit. As a result, the prosecutors sentenced him to death and then to a com...