Episode 1: Akihabara Massacre

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 2, 2026 · 10m

Noon, on a bright Sunday in the middle of Tokyo. The most famous electronics district in the world has just closed its main street to traffic, the way it does every weekend, so that thousands of people can walk down the middle of the road in the sun. It's supposed to be the safest kind of crowd there is. In about three minutes, seven of those people will be dead. And here's the part that stays with you: the man who killed them had been typing out his plan, in public, on his phone, for anyone to read — right up until twenty minutes before he did it. Nobody stopped him. This is the story of the…