This Man Escaped Prison FOUR Times

here in the U.S around one in every 200 people are incarcerated but out of this staggering 1.9 million felons in the prison system only three percent ever managed to break out and most of those are from low security facilities however in Japan a prisoner named Yoshi shiratori became Infamous for escaping maximum security incarceration none once not twice but a whopping four times and believe it or not two of those times he used a bowl of miso soup to do it unsurprisingly his story is pretty crazy so stick around to find out why no jail could

hold this incredible escape artist thank you we'd like to think life is fair right the good get rewarded and the bad get punished accordingly but does it actually work like that for Yoshi shiratori it didn't born in almori Japan in 1907 he never knew his mother and his father tragically passed when shuritori was just two years old Little Orphan shirtori was adopted by a new family who owned a tofu shop however this was no free board every day he'd have to work sunrise to sunset making tofu which he did and by the age of 21

he had a wife of his own and three beautiful children its shiratori dreamed of giving his children a better life so he left the tofu shop to work as a fisherman but life aboard the fishing boats was grueling many crewmates relied on unsavory vices to get by shirators became gambling the rush he got knowing one big win could change his family's life forever got too much and he squandered every Yin he made until soon he was borrowing money to settle as gambling debts then resorting to Petty crimes to pay back the money he'd borrowed even

with the best intentions shiratory situation spiraled into desperation in 1933 at the age of 25 shiratori and an accomplice entered a general goods store in the city of awamori but they weren't there for light shopping oh no they were there to rob the place however a concerned Shopper named takeso stepped in defended the store and chased them down the street only there was a scuffle between the three men where takiso got seriously injured and devastatingly lost his life to what degree shiratori was involved we can't be sure we do know however that both shiratori and

his accomplice fled and went into hiding two years later El Mori police eventually Tracked Down territories accomplice who immediately snitched on shiratori's whereabouts after catching word of this shiratori had two choices he could run and pray the law or his conscious never got up with him or he could be the bigger man and turn himself in he chose the latter and put his fate in the hands of the law big mistake after going to the police he realized they were less interested in the truth and more interested in getting someone anyone to pay for to

keso's untimely passing and it seemed shiritori was their number one target despite some intense physical interrogation tactics by the police however shiratori told them nothing but that in itself was enough to find him guilty and in 1936 he was sent to almori prison if life outside of Maury was hard for sure Tory life and said was even harder his violent reputation had prompted the guards to give him extra special punishments and I don't mean Wet Willies shiratori was treated worse than any other inmate and after enduring this for some time he was thrown in solitary

confinement where he spent four long months all alone well not quite alone his guards would wear really stop by to rough him up day in day out the violent treatment continued then early in the morning of June 18 1936 the police chief's house phone unexpectedly rang hello says sir we've got a problem that requires your urgent attention go on sir some of the viewers haven't hit the like And subscribe buttons hey what well tell them to do it straight away don't they know it's the only way to keep up to date with all of my

amazing content come on you don't want to hear the police chief now to you let's get back to the video okay that was a joke but there was a phone call to the police chief that morning it was from the guard on duty at 5 30 a.m he'd notice something looked off about shuritori's bed and called out to check on him there was no response so he'd called again louder still no response and a fit of rage the guard had marched in ready to teach the disrespectful prisoner a lesson only when he pulled back the

blanket he realized the bed was full of pillows Shira Tori had gone upon hearing this the police chief immediately ordered a search party to sit out and look for the jilting jailbird and hours later they returned empty-handed how had this happened shiratori had been held in solitary confinement day and night it seems impossible he could have slipped out totally undetected yet somehow he had boy what a head scratcher so what gives well remember shiratori had been spending almost every second of every day alone rather than wasting that time he'd quietly studied the guards he'd figured

out that after passing a cell it took them about 15 minutes to Circle back around this was the window of opportunity the next issue was the hulking iron door he was locked behind however shuritori had a solution for that too when he took a bath he was given a bucket with a metal wire handle to wash with secretly remove this handle so we could use it as a makeshift lock pick see just beneath the lock of his cell door was a small window guards used to pass his meals through by sticking his hand out this

window shuritori could reach the lock and try to pick it it must have taken months of persistent trial and error but eventually sure Tori cracked it once it was done he jimmied the lock made his bed up to look like he was still sleeping and waited for the guard to pass okay now he had 15 minutes to dash out pick another lock at the end of the corridor and make his getaway luckily sure Tori didn't have to try and pick this one blind so amazingly he pulled it off not bad for a first time breakout

eh as the days passed word spread around Amore about a vicious criminal who'd escaped isolation and was now stalking the streets looking for his next victim in reality shuritori had run into the mountains and was living off whatever berries he could forage but after three days he had to head back towards the town in search of supplies as an escaped con he couldn't just walk into a store and buy them he had no dinero and besides someone might recognize him instead he resorted to pre-prison tactics stealing but he got caught red-handed trying to pull for

supplies from a hospital dang sure Tory begged for forgiveness saying he'd only Escape because of how brutally he'd been treated by the guards but nobody cared he was sent back to El Mori prison only this time with a life sentence yikes with this new sentence shiratory was transferred from malmori to Miyagi prison where he spent three years before moving again to kasugai in Tokyo man I bet he tried to break out again like a hundred times right actually no he kept his head down and did as he was asked this is because shiratori actually had

a good relationship with the guards especially the head guard ryumaya Kobayashi who saw shiratori as a model prisoner as the years rolled my life at kasuga was about as good as prison can be however by 1941 Japan was drawn into World War II and prisoners were evacuated out of Tokyo shiratori was moved once again this time to Akita prison and here things really took a turn for the worse in Akita years of good behavior didn't mean squat shiratori's reputation as a vicious man outside and a disappearing delinquent inside had followed him and the guards at

Akita didn't take well to that they play placed him in a special cell specifically designed for escapists the ceiling was too high to reach and the walls were too smooth to climb aside from a tiny Skylight in the roof there was practically no sunlight there wasn't even a window to pass his food through on top of that Akita was bitterly cold the guards forced shiratori to stay in saiza a kneeling position all day if they caught him disobeying orders well they'd teach him a painful lesson despite his terrible predicament though shiratori stayed surprisingly Resolute he

taunted the guards threatening to escape on their watch so they'd get punished in response they became even more brutal all the while shuritori was scheming his next escape and this one would be far more ambitious than the first the morning of June 15 1942 was wet from a heavy storm the night before the guards began their usual rounds banging on Cell doors to wake the prisoners but when they rattled shiratori's door there was no response odds by now their Mutual hatred had peaked so this was no surprise the guard got ready to administer shiratori's first

lesson of the day except when he swung the door open the room was empty Against All Odds shuritori had broken out from a South specially designed to keep him inside and only he knew how immediately the guards contacted the district police who set up a cordon around the area to catch the prisoner last time sure Tory had shown up after just a couple of days with enough patience he'd mess up again or so they thought days went by with no sign of shiratory days became weeks and weeks became months it wasn't until three months after

his Escape that an unlikely associate heard him knock at the door in the dead of the night when Ryoma yakobayashi opened his door he found a thin frail man shivering in the cold it was shiratori Kobayashi had heard of shiratori's Escape but never would have dreamed that he'd show up at his house he invited him inside fed him and gave him tea now you're probably wondering why an escaped prisoner would visit his former keeper instead of I don't know writing him a letter but kobayash she had been kind to shiratory and he had nowhere else

to turn the journey from Akita to kobayashi's house in Tokyo is an astonishing 339 miles sure Tori explained that he'd walked the whole way under the cover of Darkness to avoid recapture eating whatever he could forage or steal once he'd arrived in Tokyo he'd ask anyone that would listen if they knew where Kobayashi lived eventually he got lucky Kobayashi was stunned he knew shuritori was honest but he also knew he couldn't stay here together they agreed shiratori would turn himself in at kosuke police station and give evidence of his poor treatment at Aikido hopefully they'd

take pity on him and he'd get a fair trial than before so that's what he did only things didn't go exactly according to plan sheratore told the judge about the brutal punishments he'd suffered at Akita the isolation the kneeling the violence but the judge only cared about one thing how he did escape the cell sure Tory's side it looked like coming clean was the only way to help his case now shiratory had two rather unique skills most people don't have firstly he could dislocate almost every joint in his body this made him really good at

squeezing through tight spaces if a gap was big enough for his head he could wriggle the rest of his body through and the little Skylight in his cell was just about big enough hold on though wasn't the Skylight really high up there's no way shiratory could have reached it to squeeze his body through right well that's where his second skill comes in he was outrageously strong way stronger than the average human aside from me of course I'm freaking yoked anyways remember I said the walls to a cell were deliberately smooth so you couldn't climb them

vertically while the cell was so small that sure Tori could press his palms against one wall and his feet against the opposite one and shimmy up horizontally whoa now the only issue was removing the Skylight luckily Mother Nature had given him a head start the wooden frame holding it in place was old and rotten with enough pressure shiratori could force it slightly open that after night he'd scale the wall to push the Skylight a little further eventually it got loose enough that he could push his whole head through so he knew his body could follow

suit all that was left to do was wait for a heavy storm so the guards wouldn't hear him scampering across the roof and make a break for it darn that's impressive everyone in the courtroom was bewildered everyone that is except the judge he added three years to shiratori's life sentence and sent him back to jail hold up how do you add to a life sentence well life sentence doesn't necessarily mean the rest of your life it's a definite but most have a clause called parole where the prisoner makes a case for their release by showing

evidence they've changed if shiratori got paroled he'd still have to serve three years after having his life sentence dropped comprende great hopefully you'll never need that information again shiratore was prepared to go back to jail after all he was still a criminal only the cold Akita had got to him so he asked the judge if he could do his time in Tokyo where it was warmer the judge laughed and instead sent shiratory to abashiri in the very north of Japan and if he thought Akita sounded bad you ain't seen nothing abashiri was so numbingly cold

your breath froze against your eyebrows now 35 years old shiratori was thrown into a bitter cell and nothing more than thin summer clothes his new guards were taking no chances this time cuffing both hands and feet and banning him from working outside his cell like the other prisoners because he didn't work sure Tori was only given half the amount of food that his fellow prisoners ate which was basic at best Japanese prison food mainly consisted of a bowl of rice and some salty miso soup still I'd rather that than British food shiratori's only connection to

the outside world was a small surveillance window in the door of his cell shuritori ignored any instructions or demands the guards made of him once a model prisoner now he lay Bound in his cell totally unresponsive one morning a passing guard saw shiratory on his knees face down with the handcuffs removed from his wrist and laid out in front of him they charged in searched his cell and found a piece of metal wire wrapped in paraffin paper now he got hold of this nobody knew but one thing was clear shiratore was sending them a message

he could Escape no matter what they did to him the guards were shaken it was on them to send a message in response and boy oh boy they did shiratori's handcuffs were replaced with new former more burdensome ones the new cuffs weighed over 40 pounds and fasten behind his back with a thick metal bulb that needed two men to tighten it in other words there was no Keyhole for him to pick washing or bathing became impossible as removing the Cuffs meant filing through the metal all he could do was sit there as the weeks and

months went by the Cuffs rubbed on his wrist and ankles and they became infested with maggots that's gross I'm gonna barf as for meal times his food portions were cut in half again now shuritorious rations were a measly quarter of what his fellow prisoners ate and because of the heavy cuffs he had to eat face down in his soup bowl like a pig shiratori was in such Dire Straits that some guards even felt bad for him but their job was to stop him escaping and that's exactly what they'd done or so they thought whilst on

evening Patrol on the 26th of August 1944 two guards heard a shattering crash above them as they looked up they saw a dirting figure disappear through a broken Skylight Panic set in as they rushed to check which prisoner had escaped everyone was accounted for except shiratori when they looked through his cell window they saw his bed was made his clothes folded on top and the special handcuffs were lying on the floor a search party immediately set out to look for him but after a few fruitless hours they gave up their cruel efforts to contain him

had failed shiratori was gone again only this time it didn't take them long to figure out how the thick metal bolt which held the handcuffs together was horribly corroded over years this will happen to most medals but the bolt showed Decades of wear after mere months and it had this weird residue on the surface a guard rather bravely tasted it and realized it was salty that same salty residue was found on the bulbs that held the surveillance window of shirators sell together too hmm over to you detectives what do you reckon [Music] all right answer

is locked in excellent day remember I said prison food was mostly rice and salty miso soup well any other prisoner would gulp down the hot soup to Abate the deathly chill sharatori thought differently he'd save a tiny amount of soup every day to drip onto the handcuffs and the bolts on the surveillance Windows frame to understand why we're gonna have to do a little bit of science basically when water touches metal it creates something called an oxidation reaction where the metal loses electrons to the oxygen present in water this makes the metal corrode and rust

with me so far cool now salt is an electrolyte meaning when it's mixed with water like in a soup the resulting solution conducts electrons much quicker than normal water so the oxidation reaction happens faster and the metal corrodes faster too in other words the salty soup was perfect for wearing down the metal bolts and facilitating sure Tori's Escape ha but wait now the devil would he know this I'm not sure but he was a fisherman at sea salt water the ocean big metal ships eggnabbit he's a genius after months of Dripping soup onto the boats

they finally corroded and came loose the door bolts went first but sure Tori left them in so the guards wouldn't notice then about a month before the escape the large bolt on the Cuffs came loose too after squeezing out of the shackles and getting loosey-goosey with his joints through the surveillance window shiratori scampered up the wall and burst out through the skyline boom gone mine freaking blown and that's not all shiratory had planned to escape the night prior the 25th but the patrol guards that night had been kind to him had he escaped whilst they

were on duty they'd have gotten trouble for it so sure Tori held on one day longer further risking his plan getting foiled all for the guards now that's a real bro after this Escape shiratori went totally off grid by now he'd lost all faith in the justice system and returning to society would be too great of a risk so he spent almost two years living entirely by himself in the mountains it's hard to know if he even saw another person during this time however even with all his experience in solitary confinement living so disconnected took

its toll one evening in 1946 shiritori traveled down into a nearby Town snuck into the school and found a newspaper as he read it dawned on him how much he'd missed in the year since his last Escape he was shocked to read that two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japanese cities shiratori hadn't even known Japan had lost the war maybe seeing life returning to normal even after such tragedy gave shiritori hope that his life too could do the same whatever it was he knew he couldn't continue living in the mountains alone so he decided

to head towards the nearby city of Sapporo and figure out his next steps regrettably things didn't go to plan along the way he stumbled across a vegetable garden whether he tried to steal from it or not will never know but the owner of the garden mistook shatori for a local Thief who'd been plundering his Fields he Chase your Tori and attacked him as sure Tory tried to defend himself The Gardener suffered a mortal wound and bled out oh Rats the commotion alerted local police and shiratory was quickly arrested again his pleas of self-defense were useless

his extensive record of murder thievery and well Prison Break said otherwise shiratori was sent to Sapporo prison and sentenced to death ah yikes there go my hopes for happy ending hold up didn't I say escape prison four times I only count three so far surely slippery shuritori can escape death though right just you wait and see see Sapporo prison tried to play it smart they acquired his previous Escape records and reinforced shiratory cell accordingly a pair of armed guards kept permanent watch outside and every day sure Tori and his cell were searched for any evidence

of an escape attempt they never found anything in fact sure Tori was on his best behavior he did everything the guards asked they were so confident he'd never Escape that they didn't even bother handcuffing him their only suspicion was he kept looking up like he was scanning for an exit knowing his previous Skylight Antics the guards knew better than to take this lightly so once a week when shiratori was bathing they'd thoroughly inspect the ceiling they found nothing nevertheless on April 1 1947 shiratori disappeared for a fourth and final time despite the best efforts of

the Sapporo guards shiratori had outsmarted them okay so what the hell happened this time well those looks he shot up at the ceiling were to draw their eye away from where the action was really happening right below their feet upon inspecting shiratori's empty cell a guard found one of the wooden floorboards beneath his bed was sawn in half beneath that was a small Alcove and snatched inside was a metal hoop that had once been wrapped around the cell toilet now it was fashioned into a saw and lay beside a soup bowl left over from one

of shiratori's meals it turns out shuritori had used an old nail to make serrated teeth on the hoop for months he'd been secretly sawing through the floorboard squeezing through the Gap and using his trusty old friend the soup bowl to gruelingly dig his way to Freedom he hadn't even had to remove any cuffs to do so the guards overconfidence had seen to that damn once more search team set out and came back empty-handed this was shuritori's Final and perhaps most ingenious Escape yet again he fled into the mountains and was lost to the world over

nine months later on January 19 1948 a police officer patrolling katani Cho near Sapporo spotted a strange looking man carrying a large bundle sensing he was up to something Shady the officer asked his name the man responded Kimura the officer then asked if he could look inside his bag Kamura happily obliged inside were pots kettles and bowls nothing untoward like the policeman had expected he was ready to let Kimura go when the man quietly asked excuse me sir could you please spare me a cigarette and the post-war years cigarettes were a lavish expense but the

officer took pity on Kimura and gave him what he asked for kumor smoked it for a while before Whispering thank you sir honestly my name is not Kimura it's Yoshi shiratori I'm an escaped convict who fled from Sapporo prison last year shiratori's life had been so devoid of kindness that the simple Act of being given a cigarette broke him he followed the policeman to the sporo police station where he awaited his next style except this time when he made it to court something was different the judge recognized the garden accident outside Sapporo was self-defense without

malicious intent and revoked the death penalty whoa furthermore the judge acknowledged that in spite of years of mistreatment by the prison service shiratori had never once tried to harm any of the guards and it wasn't like he couldn't have in fact apart from the original crime in almori he'd never actively tried to hurt anyone the judge gave him a revised sentence of 20 years imprisonment and granted his request to serve his time at fuchu prison in Tokyo as he wished curatory's arrival at fuchup with the guards on edge but they trialed a softer approach towards

him they gave him a job looking after the prison Gardens and let him participate in prison Sports and Athletics even though he was well into his 40s he now'd wrestleman half his age with ease one afternoon while shatori was resting in the prison rounds the prison Warden called out to him hey shiratory that wall is only 6.5 half feet high someone with your skills could climb that easily why haven't you territory looked at the man smiled and said I'm tired after escaping prison four times in 11 years and spending three years on the Run he'd

had enough it was a young man's game he was still strong yes but not as strong as he once was moreover he simply lacked the motivation to escape again shiritori hadn't escaped so many times because of prison itself it was for his own protection against the violent prison guards but at fuchu he finally felt safe the warden smiled back at him and decided then and there to apply for sure Tori's parole it still took a whopping 10 years to clear but eventually on December 21st 1961 shiratori left prison for the final time not through a

skylighter tunnel but through the front door as a free man after his release he spent his final years in Tokyo working as a laborer but even for our hoodlum Houdini there's one sentence none of us can escape in 1979 at the age of 71 shiritori passed away and his ashes were buried in a cemetery overlooking Mount Fuji huh what a life I'm not saying he didn't do bad stuff he definitely did still you see how one bad move can lead to a million others it's a slippery slope out there criminals are complicated people too just

because your life may or may not have led you down that path doesn't necessarily make you a good or bad person take me as long as the IRS don't figure out my true identity my tiny honey is never going anywhere near a jail right that's enough of my smooth and sultry voice for one video make sure you leave a comment down below because I'd love to hear your thoughts on sharatori's story share a story darn it why'd it take so long for me to come up with that anyways thanks for watching thank you