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Episode 573 – The Revolutionary, Part 8
For our final episode of this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu faces down with the National Police Agency as he finds himself the prime suspect in Japan’s highest profile criminal case of the 1980s. After he comes out on top, where does he go next? Why, the natural place for any high profile criminal suspect: into media, and then politics!
Show notes here.
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Miyazaki’s interview with the Financial Times about his experience being a suspect in the Glico-Morinaga case.
Images
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-2929" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/131477817565ee046297457f6c0488e5.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="250" />An artist’s sketch of the Fox Eyed Man.
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-2933" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/fl20090503x1a.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="167" />Miyazaki Manabu in the mid-2010s, when he was still a political talking head. He would die in 2022.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9816" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--225x300.jpg 225w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--768x1024.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk-.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />A Denno Toppato campaign poster–the one that reads “the poison of the Fox-Eyed Man will destroy the poison of the bureaucracy.” Underneath, it says “freedom and hope”, and of course that’s Miyazaki’s head emerging from the Fox-eyed man sketch. Subtle stuff!
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For our final episode of this miniseries: Miyazaki Manabu faces down with the National Police Agency as he finds himself the prime suspect in Japan’s highest profile criminal case of the 1980s. After he comes out on top, where does he go next? Why, the natural place for any high profile criminal suspect: into media, and then politics!
Show notes here.
Sources
Miyazaki, Manabu. Toppamono: Outlaw,, Radical, Suspect. My Life in Japan’s Underworld. Trans. Robert Whiting.
Miyazaki’s interview with the Financial Times about his experience being a suspect in the Glico-Morinaga case.
Images
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-2929" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/131477817565ee046297457f6c0488e5.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="250" />An artist’s sketch of the Fox Eyed Man.
<img decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-2933" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/fl20090503x1a.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="167" />Miyazaki Manabu in the mid-2010s, when he was still a political talking head. He would die in 2022.
<img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-9816" data-tf-not-load src="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--225x300.jpg 225w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--768x1024.jpg 768w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk--1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://isaacmeyer.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FPdd-7KagAIwjk-.jpg 1536w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" />A Denno Toppato campaign poster–the one that reads “the poison of the Fox-Eyed Man will destroy the poison of the bureaucracy.” Underneath, it says “freedom and hope”, and of course that’s Miyazaki’s head emerging from the Fox-eyed man sketch. Subtle stuff!