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Episode 25: Ikebukuro Rampage
It is a Wednesday morning in September. The sun is already high over Tokyo. The wide boulevard running from Ikebukuro Station toward Sunshine City — one of the busiest commercial stretches in the entire country — is packed the way it always is. Shoppers moving between stores. Students on a late start. Office workers on a break, grabbing something before heading back inside. In front of Tokyu Hands, one of Japan's most popular lifestyle department stores, the pavement is alive with the ordinary business of an ordinary day. At 11:35 in the morning, a 23-year-old man standing in that crowd…
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