The Murder of Lucie Blackman: Everything You Need to Know in 2025
In the spring of 2000, Tokyo was a city of contradictions. Mired in its ninth consecutive year of economic stagnation, the metropolis nonetheless pulsed with a “carnal” and “bacchanalian” energy, a desperate, “get-it-while-you-can consumerism” born not of optimism but of a shrinking economic pie.1 It was into this glittering, anxious landscape that Lucie Jane Blackman, […]