In this, a darker episode of Matcha, Masala, & Murder, co-hosts Sharmane Fury and Rhia Maîr Kaur discuss the unsettling tale of Miyuki Ishikawa, the Demon Midwife of Japan. In the post-World War II economic crisis, Japan faced a baby boom, and Ishikawa, a revered midwife, took in abandoned babies as part of the cultural practice of "mabiki" or weeding out. With an unspoken agreement that these infants might not survive, Ishikawa shouldered the burden of allowing them to die. Was she an angel of death or a demon midwife? Join us as we explore the haunting legacy of Ishikawa in this thought-provoking episode.
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