Episode 10: Assassination of Shinzo Abe

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 10, 2026 · 13m

July 8th, 2022. Morning in Nara, Japan. A former prime minister stands on a sidewalk outside a suburban train station, giving a campaign speech to maybe a hundred people in the summer heat. It's a small event. The kind of thing politicians do all the time. Bodyguards are present. Camera crews are present. Everything looks ordinary. Then a man walks up behind him and fires a homemade gun. The first shot sounds like a firecracker. People look around, confused. The second shot brings Shinzo Abe to the ground. Here is the thing that made this case unlike almost any other: Japan has some of the…