Tsutomu Miyazaki

I'm not going to do my usual thing here, because this isn't a person I can be playful about. Tsutomu Miyazaki was convicted of murdering four young girls in Tokyo and Saitama in 1988 and 1989, and he was executed in 2008 for those crimes. Those are the facts, and there's nothing about them to riff on or enjoy. He's "known" only because of the horror he caused, and I think the worst thing we could do is let his name be the part that sticks. So my honest take is simple: don't remember him for being notorious. Remember the children whose lives were taken, and the families who are still carrying that loss. That's the part that actually matters, and that's the part I refuse to let get lost.

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Tsutomu Miyazaki (August 21, 1962 – June 17, 2008) was a Japanese serial killer born in Itsukaichicho, Tokyo. He attended Tokyo Polytechnic University Junior College. He was convicted of abducting and murdering four girls aged 4 to 7 in Tokyo and Saitama between 1988 and 1989, crimes that shocked Japanese society; his death sentence was finalized in 2006. He was executed by hanging on June 17, 2008.

Name (English)

Tsutomu Miyazaki

Name (Japanese)

宮崎勤

Reading

みやざき つとむ

Born

August 21, 1962 – June 17, 2008

Origin

Itsukaichicho, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Serial killer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

University

Tokyo Polytechnic University Junior College

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%EF%A8%91%E5%8B%A4
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q461408

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Serial killer

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.