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The country of Japan had 107 people on death row as of December 21, 2021. [1]
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The country of Japan had 107 people on death row as of December 21, 2021. [1]
| Name | Crime | Time on death row | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shinji Aoba | Perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, where 36 people died. | 199 days | Aoba committed the arson due to the belief that the animation studio had plagiarized his work. |
| Masumi Hayashi | Committed a mass poisoning at a 1998 summer festival by putting poison in a pot of curry. The poisoning killed two children and two adults. | 21 years, 244 days | |
| Yoshitomo Hori | Murdered married couple Kazuo and Satomi Magoori during a robbery of their pachinko parlor in Owariasahi on June 28, 1998. | 8 years, 270 days | He was linked to the crime years later via DNA. Hori later participated as an accomplice in the murder of Rie Isogai, for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment. |
| Hayato Imai | Murdered at least three elderly patients at a nursing home from November to December 2014, where he worked as a nurse. | 6 years, 142 days | |
| Chisako Kakehi | Murdered three elderly men, including her husband, with cyanide from 2007 to 2013. | 6 years, 278 days | Additionally suspected in the murders of seven other men, but has not been charged. |
| Hiroko Kazama | Together with her husband, Gen Sekine and a third accomplice, murdered at least four people who wanted to purchase dogs from their home in Kumagaya from April to August 1993. | 23 years, 143 days | The trio were suspected of several other murders, but were never charged. Sekine died on death row in 2017, and the accomplice, Eikō Yamazaki, turned state's witness. |
| Kanae Kijima | Convicted for poisoning three would-be husbands and suspected of four more, spanning from 2007 to 2009. | 7 years, 119 days | Also known as "The Konkatsu Killer", for her frequenting of "konkatsu" (marriage-hunting) websites. |
| Mami Kitamura | Murdered four people between September 18 to 20, 2004. | 17 years, 165 days | All four member of the family were part of the Kitamura-gumi gang. |
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| Futoshi Matsunaga | Defrauded, tortured and murdered seven to nine people between 1996 and 1998. | 18 years, 318 days | His accomplice, Junko Ogata, received a life sentence. |
| Kazuhiro Ogawa | Murdered 16 people in an arson attack on an adult video arcade. | 14 years, 238 days | Ogawa told police that he started the fire after deciding to kill himself, but he got scared, and ran away as smoke filled his room. |
| Takayuki Ōtsuki | Murdered, robbed and raped 23-year-old Yayoi Motomura and murdered Motomura's 11-month-old daughter, Yuka. | 16 years, 111 days | Sentenced to death although he was not of the age of maturity (20 years of age in Japan) at that time (18 years). Successfully re-sentenced to death after the prosecution team successfully appealed his initial sentence of life imprisonment. |
| Hiroshi Sakaguchi | Murdered two policemen and another person during a shootout with police in a holiday lodge below Mount Asama. | 42 years, 54 days | He is a member of the United Red Army and was involved in the murder of 14 other members of the terrorist organization. |
| Takahiro Shiraishi | Murdered nine people, mostly suicidal young women he met through Twitter. | 3 years, 240 days | Three of his victims were high school students. He has stated his desire not to appeal his sentence. |
| Yoshinori Ueda | Perpetrator of the "Osaka Dog Lover Murders", in which he fatally poisoned five people with suxamethonium. | 26 years, 146 days | |
| Satoshi Uematsu | Perpetrated a mass stabbing that led to the deaths of 19 disabled people. | 4 years, 148 days | Uematsu was a former worker at the care facility where the incident occurred. |
| Shigeru Yagi | Orchestrated the fatal poisonings of two customers at his hostess club in Honjō from 1995 to 1999. | 21 years, 314 days | His three female accomplices were also convicted and received lesser sentences. Additionally attempted to murder a third man and is suspected to be involved in a third suspicious death dating back to 1989. |
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