Tsutomu Miyazaki
Tsutomu Miyazaki
Birth name:	Tsutomu Miyazaki
Alias(es):	Otaku Murderer, Little Girl Murderer, Yūko Imada
Born:	August 21, 1962
Location:	Ōme, Tokyo
Number of victims:	4
Country where killings occurred:	Japan
States where killings occurred:	Saitama, Tokyo
Span of killings:	August 22, 1988 through July 6, 1989
Date apprehended:	July 23, 1989
Penalty:	death

Tsutomu Miyazaki (宮﨑 勤, Miyazaki Tsutomu^?, born August 21, 1962), also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, and Dracula, is a Japanese serial killer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... ÅŒme (青梅市; ÅŒme-shi) is a city located in Tokyo, Japan off of the JR East Ome Line. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県; Saitama-ken) is located on Honshu island, Japan. ... is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the execution of a convicted criminal by the state as punishment for crimes known as capital crimes or capital offences. ... is the 233rd day of the year (234th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...

Background

Miyazaki's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists, necessitating him to move his entire forearm in order to rotate the hand.^[1] Due to his deformity, he was ostracized when he attended Itsukaichi Elementary School, and consequently kept to himself. Although he has an IQ of 135 and was originally a star student, his grades at Meidai Nakano High School dropped dramatically; he had a class rank of 40 out of 56 and did not receive the customary admission to Meiji University. Instead of studying English and becoming a teacher as he originally intended, he attended a local junior college, studying to become a photo-technician.^[1] A deformity, dysmorphism, or dysmorphic feature is a major difference in the shape of the body a body part, or a body organ (internal or external) compared to the average shape for the part in question. ... In human anatomy, the wrist is the flexible and narrower connection between the forearm and the palm. ... // The Human Forearm The forearm is the structure on the upper limb, between the elbow and the wrist. ... IQ redirects here. ... Meiji UniversitySchool house. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Life as a serial killer

Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, ages four to seven; he then sexually molested their corpses and ate portions of his third and fourth victims. The crimes — which, prior to Miyazaki's apprehension and trial were classified "The Little Girl Murders" — shocked Saitama Prefecture, which had a long-standing record of low occurrences of crimes against children. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Mutilation or maiming is an act or physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of the (human) body, usually causing death. ... For other uses, see Body (disambiguation). ... Saitama Prefecture (埼玉県; Saitama-ken) is located on Honshu island, Japan. ...

During the day, Miyazaki was a mild-mannered, quiet, obedient employee. He selected children to kill randomly. He terrorized the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling in graphic, yet mechanical, detail what he had done to their children. To the family of victim Erika Namba, Miyazaki sent a morbid postcard assembled using words cut out of magazines, spelling out: "Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death." For the computer diagnostic tool, see POST card. ...

He allowed the corpse of his first victim, Mari Konno, to decompose in the hills near his home, then chopped off the hands and feet, which he kept in his closet, and which were recovered upon his arrest. He charred the remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes, and a postcard reading: "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."

Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: they had all been bothered by strange phone calls. The phone would ring, but when answered, the person on the other end (presumably Miyazaki) would say nothing; if they didn't pick it up, the phone would sometimes ring for upwards of 20 minutes.

Arrest

On July 23, 1989, Miyazaki, while attempting to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home, was attacked by the girl's father. Miyazaki fled on foot, but returned to the park to retrieve his car, whereupon he was promptly arrested. A police search of his two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5763 videotapes, some containing pornographic anime and slasher films. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims. Contrary to many media reports, most of the tapes contained regular films and TV anime programs, such as Dokaben. However, he was a fan of horror films and had an extensive collection from this genre. The centerpieces of his collection were the first five Guinea Pig films; he apparently used the second film in the series, titled "Flower of Flesh and Blood", as a template for one of his killings. Miyazaki's crimes fueled a moral panic against otaku and anime in Japan; Miyazaki, who retained a perpetually calm and collected demeanor during his trial, appeared indifferent to his capture. In 1989, he was convicted of what became known as "The Otaku Murders." is the 204th day of the year (205th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... A Canon Inc. ... Hentai tankōbon on display in Japan Hentai )   is a Japanese word that can be used to mean metamorphosis or abnormality. In Japan hentai has a strong negative connotation, and is commonly used to mean sexually perverted. The term is used as slang for sexually explicit or pornographic comics and... The original 1974 Black Christmas is considered the first authentic slasher. ... Dokaben ) is a baseball manga by Shinji Mizushima, serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from April 24, 1972 to March 27, 1981. ... The Guinea pig films (from the Japanese ginipiggu) were a series of 1980s Japanese horror films with extremely detailed special effects. ... Moral panic is a sociological term, coined by Stanley Cohen, meaning a reaction by a group of people based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. ... Otaku ) is a derisive Japanese term used to refer to people with obsessive interests in manga, anime or hentai. ...

Following his son's conviction, Miyazaki's father, who had refused to pay for his legal defense, committed suicide. For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ...

Incarceration and trial

Throughout the 1990s, Miyazaki remained incarcerated while Saitama Prefecture put him through a battery of psychiatric evaluations, ending with the 1997 conclusion by a team of psychiatrists from Tokyo University that Miyazaki, though suffering from dissociative identity disorder and extreme schizophrenia, was still aware of the gravity and consequences of his crimes, and was therefore accountable for them. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... An MRI scan of a human brain and head. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyos Hongo Campus. ... Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), as defined by the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), is a mental condition whereby a single individual evidences two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. ...

Shortly thereafter, Miyazaki was sentenced to death by hanging. Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ... Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. ...

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On January 17, 2006, the Supreme Court of Justice upheld the original death sentence.^[2] The date of his execution has not been decided yet. is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Victims

Deceased

1. Mari Konno - (今野真理 Kon'no Mari) - Four years old
2. Masami Yoshizawa (吉沢正美 Yoshizawa Masami) - Seven years old
3. Erika Namba (難波絵梨香 Nanba Erika) - Four years old
4. Ayako Nomoto (野本綾子 Nomoto Ayako) - Five years old

See also

• Kaede Ariyama - Kaoru Kobayashi described himself as "next miyazaki".
• Kiyoshi Okubo
• Sataro Fukiage
• Hiroyuki Tsuchida
• Figure moe zoku
• Albert Fish

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References

1. ^ ^{a b} The Silencing of the Lambs
2. ^ Japan's Supreme Court upholds death penalty on child killer

External links

• "The silencing of the lambs" – An account of Miyazaki's killings.