Episode 28: Kawasaki Stabbing (2019)

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 29, 2026 · 11m

It was 7:44 in the morning on a Tuesday in late May. A cluster of elementary school students was gathered at a bus stop in a quiet residential neighborhood in Kawasaki — backpacks on, dressed in navy school uniforms, waiting for the bus that would take them to Caritas Elementary School, a private Catholic school nearby. Parents stood with them. The morning air was still. A man was walking toward them. He was fifty-one years old, a local resident who had barely left his house in years. He lived just a short distance away with his elderly uncle and aunt. He had not held a job in a very long…