Welcome to Japan's dark side—eight shocking true crime stories that will surprise you!

A serial rapist abducts and mutilates a young British woman (the infamous Lucie Blackman case). A beautiful model and aspiring actress is dismembered by her brother. A respected economist who moonlights as a prostitute is murdered by one of her clients in a sex bar.

These and other notorious cases show that Japan is not only what it seems to be. Leading true crime podcaster Mcskyz peels back the surface of a well-ordered society to reveal its seedy underbelly—violent crimes that have gripped the nation and upended numerous lives.

In these gruesome accounts, readers meet Japan's most notorious criminals and the infamous cases that made them household names:

• A futon salesman who defrauds, tortures and kills seven people
• Masumi Hayashi who feeds arsenic-laced curry to create a dinner of death
• Three Dark Web netizens who act out perverse fantasies in the real world
• A robber who poisons twelve bank employees and then disappears in a bustling
• Tokyo Nagasaki elementary school is the site of a girl's shocking box cutter slashing

Follow the evidence, shadow the detectives and discover the facts as each crime is revealed clue by clue. Learn about the perpetrator's past and psychology, then get a front-row seat in the dramatic court case that follows.

These page-turning tales offer a fascinating but terrifying look at Japan's criminal underworld!