In Japan, if you are sentenced to death, you are not told when. Not the year. Not the month. Not the night before. The guards come in the morning, and it happens within hours, and your family finds out afterwards. Iwao Hakamada woke up like that for...
Halloween Special Part 1 of 4. Japanese true crime and Japanese folklore. On Halloween night 2021, a man in a Joker costume boarded a packed Tokyo train. For eight seconds, nobody moved. On 31 October 2021, a man in...
Japanese true crime and Japanese folklore, one candle at a time. In June 1981, a Japanese literature student in Paris asked a Dutch classmate to come to his apartment and help him with his German pronunciation. Renée Hartevelt was...
Turn the lights down low… It is time for Tall Tales and True Crime… In this episode of Stories Fables Ghostly Tales, we explore one of the most widely discussed and psychologically complex cases in modern Japan: The 1997 Kobe Case, historically...
On the morning of April 23, 1994, a park cleaner in Inokashira Park opened a utility trash container expecting ordinary market waste, only to find a severed human foot inside a translucent blue plastic bag. Within hours, police...
⚠ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains extensive, highly detailed accounts of real-world serial murder, financial exploitation, the complete thermal destruction of human remains, and themes of animal cruelty. Listener discretion is absolutely...
⚠ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains detailed descriptions of a real-world serial crime involving children, systemic judicial failure, and heavy themes of unresolved communal grief. It also contains an extended discussion of traditional...
G’day Tale Tellers and fans of Japanese True Crime! 👋 Thank you to my Patreon Supporters! New episode is live right now — and this one hit differently while I was writing it. Tonight we’re going to a mountain village in Japan called Kaio...
G’day everyone! And Happy Weekend! 👋 New episode is UP — and honestly? This one has been sitting with me for weeks. This episode we’re covering the Sada Abe case. If you’re not familiar — in May 1936, a woman named Sada Abe walked out of...
Welcome back to the archive, inner circle… Deep Dive: The Sovereign Paralysis of the 1948 Teikoku Bank Incident When we look back at the forensics of post-war true crime, few cases carry the chilling, systemic precision of the Teikoku Bank Incident...