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“Otaku” Murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki Finally Executed

The man who once actually popularized the term “otaku” in a bad light – Tsutomu Miyazaki, the 45-year-old convicted serial killer, was finally executed today morning.

He was a serial killer that murdered 4 girls — four-year-old Mari Konno, seven-year-old Masami Yoshizawa, four-year-old Erika Nanba, and five-year-old Ayako Nomoto [...]

When police raided his house, here’s what they found:

5,763 videotapes that included pornographic or violent live-action and anime videos.

So during that time in Japan around 1989, the term otaku was popularise by a book called The Generation of M – We and Mr. Miyazaki (Mの世代-ぼくらとミヤザキ君).

It basically reflected otakus in a very negative light, portraying otakus as people that don’t go out and are obsessed with anime, manga and sexual fantasies of little young girls.

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 Japan

I wonder why the courts took so long to trial him …

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6 Responses to “Otaku” Murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki Finally Executed

  1. Dee says:

    so….how was he executed??

  2. Cardcaptor says:

    Red tape? The courts can only takes so many cases a year, I guess.

    On another note, Shoko Asahara was arrested 10ish years ago, sentenced to death in 2004, but he is not executed yet.

  3. Panther says:

    Courts always take a long time due to the sheer number of legal cases they have to settle, and the time also required to gather evidence, present them, get through a verdict, etc. Even huge crimes like this have to be put on hold to finish the ones in queue. Well, he is gone.

  4. KiTT says:

    Well that one less nutter in the world, im happy with that lol

  5. Duke of Yashima says:

    I think in Japan they still hang you.

  6. ezomerom says:

    yeah. he was hung