Talk:Glico Morinaga case

Timeline of the case

I've been reading through the Manabu account and I'm trying to piece some bits of the timeline together. In particular, there's a mention in the Manabu account of the Shiga prefecture police superintendent setting himself on fire for bungling the case. I'm not sure if it's August of 1984 or 1985. It's mentioned that the Monster with 21 Faces issued his last message five days later. If so, this is likely August 1985, since the Shiga police interfered with the case on November 1984.

Also, I've ran into something via the timeline on the Yukio Mishima Cyber Musemum that the Glico-Morinaga case started on May 10th. Since there's a definite date set to the kidnapping, is the May 10th date the day Glico received it's first letter from the Monster? This definitely needs to be researched.--YoungFreud 20:20, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Ghost in the Shell

Is it worth mentioning in the article that the Glico Morinaga case is fairly similar to the Laughing Man case from Ghost in the Shell? 114.77.6.119 (talk) 00:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

...Well? 114.77.6.119 (talk) 00:27, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

No, of course that´s not worth mentioning. Someone should remove that from the article, it looks silly. 85.151.59.170 (talk) 17:21, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

Merge

I recommend that this article be merged with The Monster with 21 Faces. They cover the same material. Boneyard90 (talk) 19:37, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

I second this notion. Seraphnb (talk) 23:55, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Japanese character sets

Someone want to help with that? I just added sources for the article to get rid of that nasty header (thanks The Monster with 21 Faces) but now there are little question marks by the Japanese characters. Anybody more skilled want to help? Seraphnb (talk) 23:55, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Plagiarism

If appears that the article was plagiarised, in large part — ideas taken, structure taken, barely paraphrased content taken, and verbatim quoted text taken — from the following article:

• Kincaid, Andrew (February 22, 2015). "Kidnapping, Extortion, and Cyanide-laced Candy: The Strange Case of the Monster With 21 Faces". Japan Powered. Retrieved February 7, 2017.

It may also be that they were both copied from a common earlier source, but I could not identify such. The bottom line, this article states essentially no sources, despite having reams of non-common knowledge factual material, and abundant verbatim quotes. It violates WP:VERIFY and WP:OR, even if this proves not to be the source of the unattributed content. Le Prof [Leprof_7272] 73.210.155.96 (talk) 09:07, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Citations from https://www.themonsterwith21faces.com/ ought to be removed

I removed a reference that led to a dead link on that website, and I also tried to do what I could to improve some of the citations, mainly by citing news articles from both around the time of the kidnapping as well as when the statute of limitations began to expire on the crimes. Two of the news articles I cited were easily found from that website's own citations.

https://www.themonsterwith21faces.com/ is not a primary source, or even close to it. It was a podcast that seems to have plagiarized the language on the Wikipedia page which predates the site itself. Surely there must be a source for the letters themselves that doesn't violate WP:BIASED or WP:RS and can better fulfill WP:RS/QUOTE. The translations of the letters on the website are also quite poor. I don't think this page can be properly cited without extensively citing Japanese news articles or by looking for alternative citations used by

These articles could be potentially used as a source by anyone who wishes to continue editing this page:

• https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/02/world/the-great-candy-caper-leaves-all-japan-atwitter.html
• https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-03-26-1994085011-story.html

-αβοοδ (talk) 18:01, 3 September 2021 (UTC)