Episode 46: Tokyo Keio Line Attack

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 17, 2026 · 12m

Halloween night, 2021. A packed commuter train rolls west toward Shinjuku, and among the passengers — some of them already in costume — sits a young man in a purple suit and a green shirt. He's holding what looks like a prop. At least, that's what a few people assumed. Then he sprayed something into an elderly man's eyes. Then he drew a real knife — thirty centimeters long — and drove it into the man's chest. In the next few minutes, seventeen people would be hurt. One of the train's carriages would be on fire. Passengers would pull emergency handles and squeeze through gaps in the doors to…