Episode 37: Hachioji Supermarket Murders

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 7, 2026 · 12m

Hachioji City, Tokyo. A Sunday night in late July 1995. The summer is at its worst — hot, humid, the kind of evening where you want the day to be over. Inside a suburban supermarket called Nampei Owada, three women are working the closing shift. Two of them are high school students earning pocket money on the side. The third, a 47-year-old woman named Noriko Inagaki, has been the night manager for exactly one month. By 9:15 in the evening, all three of them are dead — bound with tape, shot once in the head, left on the floor of the second-floor office. And here is the part that nobody in…