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Watch full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ1q4X3ringIt's believed that sometime during the evening, an intruder made his way into the Miyazawa...
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Mikio and Yasuko Miyazawa, their daughter Niina and their son Rei [2] were murdered during a home invasion by an unknown assailant who then remained in the family's house for several hours before disappearing.
Mikio and Yasuki Miyazawa had moved in the neighborhood of Setagaya, in the western suburbs of Tokyo in 1990. At the time, this housing development was numbered in the hundreds with over two ...
- The Location
- Possible Motive
- The Buddha Statue
- The Reward
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. In the hopes of attracting potential witnesses, police even released 3D vid...
No motive has been established, and none of the theories suggested over the years is particularly convincing. 1. Money: Some of Yasuko’s tutoring money was missing, and there has been speculation that the intruder — possibly a hired killer — might have believed he could somehow access the money the Miyazawas made from selling their house. But the k...
Police considered it significant that a 2-foot-tall Buddhist statue was found in April 2001 near the Miyazawa house. They distributed more than 30,000 flyers featuring a picture of the statue, a Jizo bodhisattva considered to be a guardian of dead children.
There is a reward of 20 million yen (more than $150,000) — the largest in Japanese history — for credible information leading to the arrest of a suspect. Japan only abolished its statute of limitations for murder in 2010 — otherwise, the Miyazawas’ killer might have escaped prosecution if he were caught. Police are still actively investigating the ...
- Drusilla Moorhouse
- Buzzfeed News Reporter
Nov 17, 2023 · Yasuko and her daughter Niina lay upstairs, their lives extinguished in a similarly violent manner. The youngest, Rei, was found strangled in his bed, an innocent life snuffed out in its bloom.
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.
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Dec 29, 2022 · Mid-morning on Dec 31, the bodies of businessman Mikio Miyazawa, age 44; his wife Yasuko (41); daughter Niina (8); and son, Rei(6) were found by Miyazawa's mother, who lived in an adjoining house beside the Sengawa River, with no nearby neighbors.
