Sep 24, 2020
3 min read
The Vending Machine Murders
How 12 people were indiscriminately poisoned in Japan
It’s a dark irony that the story of Japan’s most cruel and psychopathic poisonings begins with a promotion campaign for a health drink.
In 1985, the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company was seeing a decline in sales of its health tonic drink known as Oronamin C. So they launched a campaign. When you buy a…
