White Motorbike

Tokyo, Tuesday, December 10, 1968, 9 pm. The rain has not stopped all day. In the manager's office of a Minori Trust Bank branch on the western edge of the city, the telephone keeps ringing.

At 9:21 am, on the narrow street along the penitentiary wall, a policeman on a white motorbike stopped the car carrying almost 300 million yen, the winter bonus of the Sakuragawa Electric workers. He said there was dynamite on board, crawled under the car, sent up fire and smoke, and drove off with it.

The motorbike was left lying on the asphalt. The car turned up empty in a wooded lot, missing its three duraluminduralumin Light, strong aluminum alloy with copper, used in aircraft and in sturdy cases and boxes. cases. No policeman owns that motorbike.

The thief knew the day, the hour, the car, and the exact words to terrify the people inside it. One of the three people at this branch knows where those words came from.

Branch manager's office in a Tokyo bank, 1968, at night, with a dial phone and rain on the window.