List of death row inmates in Japan

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The country of Japan had 107 people on death row as of December 21, 2021.

List of death row inmates

Name	Crime	Time on death row	Notes
Shinji Aoba	Perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, where 36 people died.	302 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, 347 days
Yoshitomo Hori	Murdered married couple Kazuo and Satomi Magoori during a robbery of their pachinko parlor in Owariasahi on June 28, 1998.	9 years, 7 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, 245 days
Chisako Kakehi	Murdered three elderly men, including her husband, with cyanide from 2007 to 2013.	7 years, 15 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, 246 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, 222 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, 268 days	All four member of the family were part of the Kitamura-gumi gang.
Jitsuo Kitamura
Takashi Kitamura
Takahiro Kitamura
Futoshi Matsunaga	Defrauded, tortured and murdered seven to nine people between 1996 and 1998.	19 years, 55 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, 341 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, 214 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, 157 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, 343 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, 249 days
Satoshi Uematsu	Perpetrated a mass stabbing that led to the deaths of 19 disabled people.	4 years, 251 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.	22 years, 51 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.

See also

• Death row
• Capital punishment in Japan
• List of people executed in Japan
• List of death row inmates in the United States