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About Kaoru Kobayashi
Kaoru Kobayashi was a Japanese murderer and child sex offender who committed the Nara elementary school murder case, in which he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered 7-year-old Kaede Ariyama in Nara, Nara Prefecture, on 17 November 2004. Kobayashi, an ex-convict and pedophile with a record as a prolific child molester, was sentenced to death for the murder of Ariyama and was executed by hanging at Osaka Detention House on 21 February 2013. Ariyama's murder caused a surge in the moral panic against otaku culture in Japan.
Everything about Kaoru Kobayashi →- Citizenship
- Japan
- Born
- November 30, 1968
- Died
- February 21, 2013