True Crime Japan Podcast
1) EP19 - The Sugamo Child Abandonment Case
In 1988, acting on a tip from a concerned landlord, local officials visited an apartment in Tokyo's Sugamo area. They found three children, malnourished, and living on their own, and the corpse of ano...Show More
2) EP18 - Miyako Hiraoka
In 2009 college student Miyako Hiraoka disappeared while walking home from her part-time job. Closure wouldn't come until 2016, after a seven year investigation, but with a shocking twist. Find out w...Show More
3) EP17 - The UFO Episode
Don't skip just yet!!!. We promise you some fun stories, after all, our main beat might be crime, but who says we can't have fun outside our comfort zone? From the land of the rising sun, we bring yo...Show More
4) EP16 - The Inokashira Park Dismemberment Case
One of Tokyo's most bizarre unsolved cases - in the early morning light of one of the city's most desirable neighbourhoods, park workers discovered garbage bags full of what they thought were small, v...Show More
5) EP15 - The Akagi Shrine Disappearance
In 1998, Noriko Shizuka, disappeared while traveling with her family to the picturesque Akagi Shrine. She stepped away from one group of relatives to catch up with her husband. Curiously, as family m...Show More
6) EP14-The Otaku Murderer
Warning: this episode covers incidents of violence against children. Children taken from their own neighborhoods in broad daylight... The horrific crimes of Tsutomo Miyazaki shocked Japan, terrifyi...Show More
7) EP13 - The Sankebetsu Incident
There's a monster in the woods. When this small Hokkaido frontier village suffers a series of deadly bear attacks neighbours must band together for survival.  But will help arrive in time to save the...Show More
8) EP12 - The Money Episode
In this double feature we look a pair of lighter cases involving greed, generosity and cold hard cash. When boxes of ¥10,000 notes start showing up in the restrooms of municipal offices police begin ...Show More
9) EP11 - The Saitama Dog-Lover Murders
We're back! Welcome to our first episode of Season 2! At first glance there seemed to be no connection between a bizarre string of disappearances until the common denominator is discovered - the miss...Show More
10) EP10 - The BOAC Stewardess Murder
In 1959 Tomoko Takekawa’s life was full of promise, having moved to Tokyo from her parents home in Kobe had given her a whole new level of independence and freedom. That year she was also hired as a s...Show More