Akio Nakamori (中森 明夫, Nakamori Akio), real name Ansaku Shibahara (柴原安作, Shibahara Ansaku), is a Japanese columnist and editor born on January 1, 1960, in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
He is credited as popularizing the term "otaku" in its modern colloquial usage.
Along with Yūichi Endō, he launched the Tokyo Otona Club in 1982.
He is most well known for his study of serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki, The Age of M (Mの時代, M no Jidai), published in 1989.
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