Akio Nakamori (中森 明夫, Nakamori Akio^?), real name Ansaku Shibahara (柴原安作, Shibahara Ansaku^?), is a columnist and editor born on January 1, 1960 in Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is credited as popularizing the term "otaku" in its modern colloquial usage. After dropping out of Meiji University's Nakano Junior and Senior High Schools, he graduated from Wako University. Along with Yūichi Endō, he launched the Tokyo Otona Club in 1982. A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Mie Prefecture (三重県; Mie-ken) is part of the Kinki region on Honshu island, Japan. ... Overweight, unkempt, bespectacled and fantasizing about an anime heroine--a popular otaku stereotype. ... Meiji UniversitySchool house. ...

His is most well known for his study of serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, The Age of M (Mの時代, M no Jidai^?), published in 1989. Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ... Tsutomu Miyazakis 1989 Mugshot Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮崎勤, Miyazaki Tsutomu, born August 21, 1962), also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula, is a Japanese serial killer. ...