Black Files: No Name, No Face — Japan's Cases That Were Never Solved

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 14, 2026 · 41m

Most of the cases we cover end with a name. An arrest, a courtroom, a sentence — some kind of line drawn under it. These three don't. Tonight, three Japanese cases in which the person responsible was never identified. Not acquitted. Not released on a technicality. Never found at all. We begin in 1984, with a group that spent seventeen months holding Japan's food industry hostage. They kidnapped the president of Ezaki Glico from his own bathroom — he escaped three days later — then sent more than a hundred taunting letters signed with the name of a villain from a children's detective novel…