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A street argument in Nagoya ends with a man dead, and somebody caught the whole thing on a phone, part of it shot from inside a taxi. The clip is pushing 7 years old now, and shock sites keep “rediscovering” it like it just leaked yesterday.
Video
| Camera | Length | Shows |
|---|---|---|
| Phone video | 2:20 | Build-up and the attack |
- 0:05 Two men face off in the road
- 0:29 Man in white strikes person on ground
- 1:04 He crouches back down over him
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The phone footage, partly shot through a taxi window, catches an argument in the street, then later shows a man in a white T-shirt standing over someone who’s down and not fighting back, while people nearby just watch.
What the Thread Said
Most of the thread just calls both guys trash and moves on, but a few commenters dig up the actual backstory: an old grudge from a prison stretch over who looked after whose wife while he was locked up, with some claiming the victim’s family fell apart over it. Others who followed the trial correct the legend, pointing out prosecutors called it premeditated, weapon bought days after release. What really got people going wasn’t the violence, it’s that the only person who ran in to help was a woman, while one guy just yelled “someone stop him” from a safe distance and never moved.
Nagoya Murder Video: No Source Check On Record
The clip is being passed around as a real Nagoya murder, but nobody has actually traced when or where it was filmed, and the prefecture it’s pinned to isn’t exactly a crime hotspot.
- 307 murders in Japan in 2017, versus 17,284 in the US, about 56 times fewer.
- Japan’s murder rate is just 0.2-0.23 per 100,000 people, the lowest of the countries compared.
- Aichi, where the video is said to be set, logged 6.48 murders per million people in 2011 (48 cases), ranking 29th among Japan’s prefectures.
- Japan’s fact-checker JFC caught a 2024 clip sold as Ishikawa flood footage that was actually 2021 flooding in China’s Henan province, a reminder these clips get recaptioned.
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