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"Otaku" Murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki Executed on Tuesday
posted on by Egan Loo
1988-1989 serial killings tarnished otaku's image in Japan
Tsutomu Miyazaki, the 45-year-old convicted serial killer whose 1989 arrest tarnished the image of Akio Nakamori's writings about the case (pictured at right) simultaneously popularized the term and vilified it in the general public.
Miyazaki (no relation to Mari Konno, 7-year-old Masami Yoshizawa, 4-year-old Erika Nanba, and 5-year-old Ayako Nomoto — between 1988 and 1989.
Miyazaki's trial lasted from 1990 until 1997, when he was sentenced to death. The Tokyo High Court upheld the ruling in 2001, and the Japanese Supreme Court upheld it also in January of 2006.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun 1, Mainichi Shimbun 2
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