11: The Hostess Murders (Joji Obara) | Japan

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Tokyo, 1992. The mysterious death of a young Australian woman working as a hostess in Japan goes unsolved.

Eight years later, a young British woman disappears under similarly mysterious circumstances.

All eyes turn to wealthy Japanese playboy, Joji Obara – a man who had no known friends and refused to ever have his photo taken. He was eventually dubbed: The Beast with a Human Face.

This is a sordid story about what happened to countless foreign women, working in Tokyo in the 1990s.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the evidence locker.
0:08.5	Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials. It deals with true crimes and real people.
0:14.9	Each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.
0:25.0	It was Tokyo, 1992, and Samantha Ridgeway was an Australian living in Japan teaching English.
0:32.0	She was excited when her sister
0:34.1	Karita came to live with her in Japan for a while. Karita was a 21-year-old
0:38.6	aspiring actress from Perth. She was worldly and bright and started traveling at the young age of 17.
0:45.0	Her travels had taken her all over the world from the US, Mexico, and Nepal.
0:51.0	Japan was the next tick on her list. But things would end in tragedy for
0:55.9	Carita. One Monday morning, her sister Samantha received a call from a hospital,
1:01.5	notifying her that Carita had been admitted and was seriously ill.
1:06.6	Samantha rushed to Hiddeshima Hospital.
1:09.4	Her sister was slipping in and out of consciousness.
1:13.0	Carita held out her hand so Samantha could hold it, but she could not speak anymore.
1:18.5	Hospital staff explained that Carita had eaten a raw oyster, which caused liver failure. A man called
1:24.0	called A Kira Nishita had brought her in.
1:28.0	He said that Kareta had been on a date with him when she had eaten this oyster.
1:32.0	Within days, Krita was declared brain dead and her family had to make the
1:36.8	heartbreaking decision to switch off her life support.
1:41.6	Samantha was suspicious of the man who claimed that he had been on a date with
1:44.1	Carita. Samantha knew that Carita's condition was caused by this man.
1:48.3	Perhaps he poisoned her. But why would anyone want Carita dead? It would take eight
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