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It allowed the Miyazawas to live right-next-door to Yasuko's family: her mother, mostly, but also her sister and her brother-in-law, who lived with her during this time period. This allowed a total of seven family members to live in this shared domicile, although there was no internal connection between the two houses.
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Jun 7, 2024 · The Miyazawas lived here, a typical middle-class family consisting of a father, Mikio, a mother, Yasuko, a daughter, Niina, and a son, Rei. But in these late hours on the New Year's Eve holiday, a home invasion resulted in the slaughter of the entire family—a crime that remains unsolved to this day.
The Setagaya family murder (Japanese: 世田谷一家殺害事件, Hepburn: Setagaya ikka satsugai jiken, Setagaya family killings) refers to the unsolved murders of the Miyazawa family in the Kamisoshigaya neighborhood of Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, on the night of December 30 to 31, 2000.
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Niina was a clever and active young girl. The eight-year-old was in second grade at school and a year ahead in her studies. Her grandmother Setsuko fondly remembers how much she loved her and ballet. "Niina loved to show me her moves. She was just a bright and adorable child," she said. Niina's six-year-old brother Rei lived with a mental disabilit...
It's a question still seared in the mind of 72-year-old Takeshi Tsuchida. The now-retired police chief played an integral role in the case — and cannot let it go. An officer for 41 years, he rose to the ranks of chief officer at the Seijyo Police station, the force tasked with investigating the family's murder. The facial expressions from the bodie...
Because the investigation cannot work out the motivation of the killer, police cannot narrow their focus. One avenue of investigation looked at whether Mikio had been seen arguing with skaters at the nearby park in the lead up to his murder. The killer's clothes and suspected age could suggest a disgruntled skater tired of the neighbour's noise com...
The case is now in the hands of a detective decades younger than Takeshi Tsuchida. Manabu Ide, from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Investigative Task Force, remains confident the case will ultimately be solved. "I don't think there is any detective who is not confident," he said. "It's our mission to arrest the criminal who murdered four inn...
Dec 27, 2022 · The Miyazawas and Yasuko’s relatives lived in two of four homes remaining in a housing development that once numbered in the hundreds. The others had been torn down to make room for the Tokyo Municipal Soshigaya Park; the Miyazawas had sold their home but had not yet moved.
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- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Jan 24, 2021 · The four of them: the father, office worker Miyazawa Mikio (44), his wife Yasuko (41) home tutor, daughter Niina (8) and son Rei (6) lived in a small cramped space. At the back, the house was...
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Feb 15, 2021 · While the family lived on one side, Yasuko’s mother, sister, and brother-in-law lived on the other. Because the building consisted of two living spaces, they also had to go outside to...
