Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Case 346: Megumi Yokota

When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm.

The police in Niigata, Japan, conducted one of the city’s largest ever investigations, but no trace of Megumi was ever found. Two decades later, the case took a shocking turn that would rock the entire nation of Japan and have geopolitical ramifications…

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Narration – Anonymous Host
Research & writing – Erin Munro
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Audio editing – Anthony Telfer

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