Not Approved for Moms and Dan
Because I spelled his name right on the first try, I’m going to post about Tsutomu Miyazaki.
- Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese, was born prematurely in 1962. His incomplete fetal development left him with the hands of a deformed person: “gnarled” and “fused directly to the wrist.”
- “Mild-mannered” photo-technician by day and necrophiliac vampire by night, Miyazaki mutilated and murdered 4 young girls between 1988-9.
- He ate one of the hands of one of the girls and drank her blood.
- Calling to mind the late Albert Fish, Miyazaki terrorized the families of his randomly-chosen victims - he sent them letters recounting in graphic detail the horrific acts he committed.
- To the family of Erika Nanba, he sent a postcard on which the words (cut out from magazines) spelled out “Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death.”
- Another victim was left to rot on a hillside near Miyazaki’s home. After some time had elapsed, he returned to the body, removed the hands and the feet and kept them in his closet, where they remained until his arrest.
- It didn’t end there - he burned her bones, crushed them to a powder and mailed them to her family along with a few teeth, photos of her clothing and a postcard, which read “Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove.”
- July 23, 1989: Miyazaki, while trying to use a zoom lens to violate a young girl, was attacked by the girl’s father.
- Miyazaki fled but returned to pick up his car, at which time he was arrested.
- Upon investigation, over 5,000 videotapes were discovered in his house, the footage on which ranged from horror films to anime porn to videos of his victims.
- Miyazaki was dubbed the “Otaku Murderer,” and allow me to digress in order to explain the term “otaku.”
- Ripped straight from wikipedia, “Otaku is derived from a Japanese term for another’s house or family (お宅, otaku) that is also used as an honorific second-person pronoun.”
- In the 1980s, it became a slang term used by anime nerds and such to refer to those who are obsessively interested in anime, manga and video games.
- Shout out to my sister, because she’s not one such person.
- Otaku was thus given a bad name.
- There is speculation that reports of Miyazaki having an extensive collection of anime porn and such was fabricated so as to make a stronger case for him being a deviant and for his actions to be more accessible and understandable to the Japanese people (frame of reference type thing). (There are 2 separate thoughts here that I fused together, perhaps unjustly so, but I’ll leave it at that for brevity’s sake).
- Side note: Why the police attempted to manipulate public opinion and make Miyazaki out to be a monster is beyond me because it seems there was never any question or dispute as to whether or not he committed these acts. He did and said so himself.
- Tried in 1990, Miyazaki spouted nonsense and spoke of his “rat man” alter ego, of which he drew pictures during the trial.
- The court ruled him “sane” (my term, but what I’m trying to say is they decided he was not schizophrenic) and sentenced him to death by hanging in April of 1997.
- Miyazaki considered his murders a job well done and never apologized for his actions.
- He ended up being hanged on June 17, 2008 (I can’t believe that slipped by me). Here’s where it’s confusing, though, because that April 1997 death sentence was upheld twice, so it doesn’t seem like the hanging was a court-ordered thing. Some suspect his execution was related to the Akihabara Massacre (a shopping mall murder spree), but that’s another story for another time.
