Episode 5: Osaka Ikeda School Massacre

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 5, 2026 · 13m

It was ten in the morning on a Thursday in June. Children in neat school uniforms were sitting at their desks, just like every other day. Parents had already dropped them off. Teachers were working through the morning lessons. The school was the kind of institution families aspired to send their children to — attached to Osaka Kyoiku University, one of the most prestigious elementary schools in the region. By 10:20 a.m., eight of those children were dead. Seven were girls. One was a seven-year-old boy. And the man who killed them had bought the knife less than an hour before. This is the…