List of executions in Japan

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Capital punishment is a legal penalty for murder in Japan, and is applied in cases of multiple murder or aggravated single murder. Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities.

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After a four-year moratorium, executions resumed in 1993 and up to 15 have taken place almost each year since then. Thirteen of those executed in 2018, under former Minister of Justice and former think tank researcher Yōko Kamikawa, had taken part in the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995.

List of people executed since 1993

No.NameAgeSexDatePlaceCrimeVictim(s)Minister
1Seikichi Kondo55M26 March 1993 Sendai Multiple murders2 Masaharu Gotoda
2Shujiro Tachikawa62M Osaka Multiple murders2
3Tetsuo Kawanaka48MOsakaMultiple murders3
4Tadao Kojima61M26 November 1993 Sapporo Multiple murders3 Akira Mikazuki
5Yukio Seki47M Tokyo Single murder1
6Hideo Deguchi70MOsakaMultiple murders2
7Toru Sakaguchi56MOsaka
8Yukio Ajima44M1 December 1994TokyoMultiple murders3 Isao Maeda
9Kazumi Sasaki66MSendaiMultiple murders*2
10Eiji Fujioka40M26 May 1995OsakaMultiple murders2
11Fusao Suda54MTokyoSingle murder1
12Shigeho Tanaka69MTokyoSingle murder1
13Shuji Kimura45M21 December 1995 Nagoya Single murder1 Hiroshi Miyazawa
14Naoto Hirata63M Fukuoka Multiple murders2
15Tokujirou Shinohara68MTokyoMultiple murders*2
16Yoshiaki Sugimto49M11 July 1996FukuokaSingle murder1 Ritsuko Nagao
17Kazumi Yokoyama43MFukuoka
18Mikio Ishida48MTokyoMultiple murders2
19Yoshihito Imai55M20 December 1996TokyoMultiple murders3 Isao Matsuura
20Mitsunari Hirata60MTokyoMultiple murders2
21Satoru Noguchi50MTokyo
22Yasumasa Hidaka54M1 August 1997SapporoMultiple murders7
23Nobuko Hidaka51FSapporo
24Hideki Kanda43MTokyoMultiple murders3
25 Norio Nagayama 48MTokyoMultiple murders4
26Masahiro Muratake54M25 June 1998FukuokaMultiple murders3 Kokichi Shimoinaba
27Yukihisa Takeyasu66MFukuokaMultiple murders*1
28Shinji Shimazu66MTokyoMultiple murders*1
29 Masamichi Ida 56M19 November 1998NagoyaMultiple murders3 Shozaburo Nakamura
30Tatsuaki Nishio61MNagoyaSingle murder1
31Akira Tsuda59M Hiroshima Single murder1
32Masashi Satou62M10 September 1999TokyoMultiple murders*1 Takao Jinnouchi
33Katsutoshi Takada61MSendaiMultiple murders*1
34 Tetsuyuki Morikawa 69MFukuokaMultiple murders*2
35Teruo Ono62M17 December 1999FukuokaMultiple murders*1 Hideo Usui
36Kazuo Sagawa48MTokyoMultiple murders2
37 Kiyotaka Katsuta 52M30 November 2000NagoyaMultiple murders8 Okiharu Yasuoka
38Takashi Miyawaki57MNagoyaMultiple murders3
39Kunikatsu Oishi55MFukuokaMultiple murders3
40 Toshihiko Hasegawa 51M27 December 2001NagoyaMultiple murders3 Mayumi Moriyama
41Kojiro Asakura66MTokyoMultiple murders5
42Ryuya Haruta36M18 September 2002FukuokaSingle murder1
43Yoshiteru Hamada51MNagoyaMultiple murders*3
44Sinji Mukai42M12 September 2003OsakaMultiple murders3
45Sueo Shimazaki59M14 September 2004FukuokaMultiple murders3 Daizo Nozawa
46 Mamoru Takuma 40MOsaka Multiple murders 8
47Susumu Kitagawa58M16 September 2005OsakaMultiple murders2 Chieko Nono
48 Hiroaki Hidaka 44M25 December 2006HiroshimaMultiple murders4 Jinen Nagase
49Yoshimitsu Akiyama77MTokyoSingle murder1
50Yoshio Fujinami75MTokyoMultiple murders2
51Michio Fukuoka64MOsakaMultiple murders3
52Yoshikatsu Oda59M27 April 2007FukuokaMultiple murders2
53Masahiro Tanaka42MTokyoMultiple murders4
54Kosaku Nada56MOsakaMultiple murders2
55Hifumi Takezawa69M23 August 2007TokyoMultiple murders3
56Kozo Segawa60MNagoyaMultiple murders2
57Yoshio Iwamoto62MTokyoMultiple murders2
58Seiha Fujima47M7 December 2007TokyoMultiple murders5 Kunio Hatoyama
59Hiroki Fukawa42MTokyoMultiple murders2
60Noboru Ikemoto75MOsakaMultiple murders3
61Masahiko Matsubara63M1 February 2008OsakaMultiple murders2
62Takashi Mochida65MTokyoMultiple murders*1
63Keishi Nago37MFukuokaMultiple murders2
64Kaoru Okashita61M10 April 2008TokyoMultiple murders2
65Masahito Sakamoto41MTokyoSingle murder1
66Katsuyoshi Nakamoto64MOsakaMultiple murders2
67Masaharu Nakamura61MOsakaMultiple murders2
68 Tsutomu Miyazaki 45M17 June 2008TokyoMultiple murders4
69Yoshio Yamasaki73MOsakaMultiple murders2
70Shinji Mutsuda37MTokyoMultiple murders2
71Yoshiyuki Mantani68M11 September 2008OsakaMultiple murders*1 Okiharu Yasuoka
72Mineteru Yamamoto68MOsakaMultiple murders2
73Isamu Hirano61MTokyoMultiple murders*2
74Michitoshi Kuma70M28 October 2008FukuokaMultiple murders2 Eisuke Mori
75Masahiro Takashio55MSendaiMultiple murders2
76Yukinari Kawamura44M28 January 2009NagoyaMultiple murders2
77Tetsuya Sato39MNagoya
78 Shojiro Nishimoto 32MTokyoMultiple murders4
79Tadashi Makino58MFukuokaMultiple murders*1
80 Hiroshi Maeue 40M28 July 2009OsakaMultiple murders3
81 Yukio Yamaji 25MOsakaMultiple murders*2
82Chen Detong41MTokyoMultiple murders3
83Kazuo Shinozawa59M28 July 2010 [1] TokyoMultiple murders6 Keiko Chiba
84Hidenori Ogata33MTokyoMultiple murders2
85 Yasuaki Uwabe 48M29 March 2012 [2] Hiroshima Multiple murders 5 Toshio Ogawa
86Tomoyuki Furusawa46MTokyoMultiple murders3
87Yasutoshi Matsuda44MFukuokaMultiple murders2
88Junya Hattori40M3 August 2012 [3] TokyoSingle murder1 Makoto Taki
89Kyozo Matsumura31MOsakaMultiple murders2
90 Sachiko Eto 65F27 September 2012 [4] SendaiMultiple murders6
91Yukinori Matsuda39MFukuokaMultiple murders2
92 Masahiro Kanagawa 29M21 February 2013 [5] TokyoMultiple murders2 Sadakazu Tanigaki
93Keiki Kano62MNagoyaMultiple murders*1
94 Kaoru Kobayashi 44MOsakaSingle murder1
95Katsuji Hamasaki64M26 April 2013 [6] TokyoMultiple murders2
96Yoshihide Miyagi56MTokyo
97Tokuhisa Kumagai73M12 September 2013 [7] TokyoSingle murder1
98Mitsuo Fujishima55M12 December 2013 [8] TokyoMultiple murders2
99Ryoji Kagayama63MOsakaMultiple murders2
100Masanori Kawasaki68M26 June 2014 [9] OsakaMultiple murders3
101Mitsuhiro Kobayashi56M29 August 2014 [10] SendaiMultiple murders5
102Tsutomu Takamizawa59MTokyoMultiple murders3
103 Tsukasa Kanda 44M25 June 2015 [11] Nagoya Single murder 1 Yōko Kamikawa
104Sumitoshi Tsuda63M18 December 2015 [12] SendaiMultiple murders3 Mitsuhide Iwaki
105Kazuyuki Wakabayashi39MTokyoMultiple murders2
106 Yasutoshi Kamata 75M25 March 2016 [13] OsakaMultiple murders5
107Junko Yoshida56FFukuokaMultiple murders2
108Kenichi Tajiri45M10 November 2016 [14] FukuokaMultiple murders2 Katsutoshi Kaneda
109 Masakatsu Nishikawa 61M13 July 2017 [15] OsakaMultiple murders4
110Koichi Sumida34MHiroshimaSingle murder1
111Teruhiko Seki44M19 December 2017 [16] TokyoMultiple murders4 Yōko Kamikawa [17]
112Kiyoshi Matsui69MTokyoMultiple murders3
113 Shoko Asahara 63M6 July 2018 [18] Tokyo Multiple murders 29
114 Seiichi Endo 58MTokyo
115 Masami Tsuchiya 53MTokyo
116 Tomomitsu Niimi 54MOsaka
117 Yoshihiro Inoue 48MOsaka
118 Tomomasa Nakagawa 55MHiroshima
119 Kiyohide Hayakawa 68MFukuoka
120 Satoru Hashimoto 51M26 July 2018 [19] Tokyo
121 Yasuo Hayashi 60MSendai
122 Kenichi Hirose 54MTokyo
123 Toru Toyoda 50MTokyo
124 Masato Yokoyama 54MNagoya
125 Kazuaki Okazaki 57MNagoya
126Keizo Okamoto60M27 December 2018 [20] OsakaMultiple murders2 Takashi Yamashita
127Hiroya Suemori67MOsaka
128 Koichi Shoji 64M2 August 2019 [21] TokyoMultiple murders2
129 Yasunori Suzuki 50MFukuokaMultiple murders3
130 Wei Wei 40M26 December 2019 [22] Fukuoka Multiple murders 4 Masako Mori
131Yasutaka Fujishiro65M21 December 2021 [23] OsakaMultiple murders7 Yoshihisa Furukawa
132Tomoaki Takanezawa54MTokyoMultiple murders2
133Mitsunori Onogawa44MTokyo
134 Tomohiro Katō 39M26 July 2022 [24] Tokyo Multiple murders 7
The number of people executed in Japan since 1993
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Note: Inmates noted with a * were sentenced to death for murder(s) committed while on parole for another murder

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