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Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Japan’s Darkest Reality TV Show Death

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

Eleanor Neale

True Crime

4.9900 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tokyo, 2020: 

After what should’ve been a typical reality TV dispute, a 22 year old cast member of the hit dating show Terrace House has just been discovered dead. Leading to the most recent season being scrubbed from the internet overnight. Her name was Hana Kimura. 

Terrace House was heartwarming, gentle and provided a level of calmness rarely seen in reality TV today. Only, what appeared on screen, wasn’t the reality contestants faced behind it. 

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0:00.0

On the set of a Japanese reality show in 2020, a dramatic scene is being caught on camera.

0:06.6

Conflict between two ex-lovers that, unbeknownst to everyone in the room, would lead to one of their deaths.

0:14.4

22-year-old Hannah Kimura's family were left in devastation as the network and the producers scrambled to get the whole season wiped

0:22.5

from the internet, wiped from existence.

0:31.0

Hello and welcome to Outlaw podcast. I'm Ellen Arneal, and in today's episode episode we're in Tokyo in 2020 where a young woman

0:39.3

actively being broadcasted on a reality dating show is crumbling under the pressure.

0:46.3

Hannah Kimura was a pro wrestler on the search for her very first romantic connection on national

0:52.3

television when she entered Terrace House.

0:56.0

Think Love Island meets Big Brother.

0:58.0

Six singles move into this house and live together and connections blossom.

1:04.0

At least that's what's meant to happen.

1:07.0

But instead, Hannah Kimura was exposed to a world of pain instead.

1:12.6

Her appearance on the show would directly lead to her sudden and untimely death within

1:18.5

months of her arrival on screen.

1:21.5

Now, before we continue with this episode, I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean

1:25.9

absolutely no disrespect to anyone that we talk about in this episode.

1:29.3

We will be covering a lot of sensitive topics today, including sexual assault, suicide, self-harm, racism and abuse.

1:38.3

Viewer discretion is advised.

1:40.3

On the 3rd of September, 1977, in Yokohama, Japan, a beautiful baby girl called

1:46.5

Hannah Kimora was born to a Japanese mother and an Indonesian father, though she would be raised

1:52.5

solely by her mother, Kyoko, after her father abandoned the family when Hannah was just one year old.

1:59.4

It's terribly sad, but not to worry too much because

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