Norio Nagayama

Norio Nagayama
Norio Nagayama
Background information
Birth name Norio Nagayama
Born June 27, 1949(1949-06-27)
Abashiri, Hokkaidō, Japan
Died August 1, 1997(1997-08-01) (aged 48)
Cause of death Death sentence by hanging
Killings
Number of victims: 4
Span of killings October 11, 1968–November 5, 1968
Country Japan
State(s) Tokyo, Kyoto, Hokkaidō, Aichi
Date apprehended April 7, 1969

Norio Nagayama (永山 則夫 Nagayama Norio?, June 27, 1949 – August 1, 1997) was a Japanese spree killer and novelist.

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Biography

Nagayama was born in Abashiri, Hokkaidō and grew up in a broken home. He moved to Tokyo in 1965 and, while working in Tokyo's Shibuya district, witnessed the Zama and Shibuya shootings.

Nagayama killed four people with a handgun between October 11 and November 5, 1968. He robbed the last two victims of 16,420 yen. He was arrested on April 7, 1969. When he was arrested, he was 19 years old and was regarded as a minor under Japanese law.

The Tokyo District Court sentenced him to death in 1979, though this was overturned by the Tokyo High Court which imposed a sentence of life imprisonment in 1981. The Supreme Court of Japan reversed the high court's decision in 1983. This ruling is already considered today as the landmark decision for application of the death penalty in Japan.

The high court subsequently sentenced him to death in 1987, a decision which the Supreme Court upheld in 1990.[1]

In prison, Nagayama wrote many novels and became a public figure. His first published work was Tears of Ignorance (無知の涙 Muchi no Namida?) in 1971. In 1983, he was awarded a prize for the novel Wooden Bridge (木橋 Kibashi?). The Japanese writing community was uneasy with his success, given his status as a convicted killer. He was rejected by Japan Writers' Association, but he received a similar recognition in Saarland, Germany in 1996.[2]

His death sentence was contested until his sudden execution on August 1, 1997, just 34 days after the arrest of Seito Sakakibara, a 14-year-old who had committed similar murders. A foundation to save poor people was established by his intention.[3]

Victims

  1. Masanori Nakamura (中村 公紀, Nakamura Masanori)
  2. Tomejirō Katsumi (勝見 留次郎, Katsumi Tomejirō)
  3. Tetsuhiko Saitō (斎藤 哲彦, Saitō Tetsuhiko)
  4. Masaaki Itō (伊藤 正明, Itō Masaaki)

Works

  • Muchi no Namida (無知の涙?, 1971)
  • Ai ka Mu ka (愛か無か?, 1973)
  • Kibashi (木橋?, 1984)
  • Sooren no Tabigeinin (ソオ連の旅芸人?, 1986)
  • Sutego Gokko (捨て子ごっこ?, 1987)
  • Shikei no Namida (死刑の涙?, 1988)
  • Nazeka Umi (なぜか 海?, 1989)
  • Isui (異水?, 1990)
  • Hana (?, 1997)

See also

References

  1. ^ Weisman, Steven R. (1990-04-26). "Death Sentence Fuels Japan's Soul-Searching". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DF123FF935A15757C0A966958260. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 
  2. ^ "Muchi no Namida" (in German). http://www.hh.shuttle.de/hh/gymschenefeld/zeitung/unwissen.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 
  3. ^ "Killer's legacy builds bridges". The Japan Times. 2002-07-23. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20020723a5.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 

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