The Monster with 21 Faces
8 min readSep 28, 2021
The Glico-Morinaga Case — a kidnapping and a country’s food supply held hostage in Japan
On March 18, 1984, at just after 9 p.m., masked kidnappers armed with guns entered the home of 42-year-old Katsuhisa Ezaki, President of the Ezaki Glico Company, known to most simply as “Glico”.
Though the company sold everything from ice cream to hamburger meat, they were best known for sweets such as…
