It should have been the trip of a lifetime: two 21-year-old friends from the UK moved to Tokyo during a gap year to work and live in one of the most exciting cities in the world. But less than a month later, one of the women, Lucie Blackman, went missing. Her distraught family flew to Japan on a desperate search to find her, and one of the biggest manhunts in the country’s history began. What they found was a monster of unspeakable proportions.

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People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman. By Richard Lloyd Parry. Jonathan Cape

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-06/tokyo-hostess-bars-little-understood-part-of-japans-nightlife/7927038

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