Tokyo Year Zero

Author’s Note

Kodaira Yoshio was executed at the Miyagi Prison in Sendai

Prefecture on the fifth of October, 1949.

He was forty-four years old.

Kodaira Yoshio had confessed to the rapes and murders of ten

women, including Miyazaki Mitsuko and the second woman found

in Shiba Park, Tokyo, in August 1946.

However, this woman has never been identified.

She was aged approximately seventeen to eighteen years and

died on or around the twenty-second of July, 1946 –

Namu-amida-butsu…

David Peace, Tokyo, 2006

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