Episode 30: Nagoya University Poisoning

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 31, 2026 · 12m

She was nineteen years old. She was studying at one of Japan's most respected national universities. By every outward measure — grades, campus life, social ease — she appeared to be thriving. And in the bathroom of her Nagoya apartment, a seventy-seven-year-old woman's body was decomposing. It had been there for weeks. She hadn't called anyone. She hadn't tried to dispose of the remains. She hadn't even bothered to seal the door frame against the smell. She just kept living in that apartment, going to class, while what she had done sat in the room next to hers. But here's the part that makes…