Episode 22: Osaka Clinic Arson

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 23, 2026 · 13m

It was a Friday morning in Osaka's Kitashinchi district — one of the most vibrant entertainment and business areas in western Japan. The time was just after ten. On the fourth floor of a modest eight-story office building, about thirty people were gathered inside a psychiatric clinic. They weren't there against their will. They had come, as they did most weeks, because they were struggling — struggling with the pressures of work, with anxiety, with depression. This was a clinic specifically for workers' mental health, and many of them had been coming for months, even years, trying to get…