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TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Japan has executed a man convicted of killing and mutilating young girls in the late 1980s.
Tsutomu Miyazaki, seen in August 1989, attends a police investigation of his serial killing of girls in Tokyo.
Public broadcaster NHK reports that 45-year-old Tsutomu Miyazaki was hanged early Tuesday.
In 1997, Tokyo District Court found Miyazaki guilty of killing four girls aged from 4 years to 7 in 1988 and 1989 and sentenced him to death. Tokyo High Court upheld the sentence in 2001, and the Supreme Court followed suit on January 17 this year.
The murders and Miyazaki's arrest dominated headlines in the country and prompted calls for tighter restrictions on the content of violent adult videos.
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