List of death row inmates in Japan

The country of Japan had 107 people on death row as of December 21, 2021.[1]

List of death row inmates

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Name Crime Time on death row Notes
Shinji Aoba Perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, where 36 people died. 271 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, 316 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, 342 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, 214 days
Chisako Kakehi Murdered three elderly men, including her husband, with cyanide from 2007 to 2013. 6 years, 350 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, 215 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, 191 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, 237 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, 24 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, 310 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, 183 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, 126 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, 312 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, 218 days
Satoshi Uematsu Perpetrated a mass stabbing that led to the deaths of 19 disabled people. 4 years, 220 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, 20 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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References

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  1. ^ "Japan hangs three death-row inmates in first executions since 2019". The Japan Times. 21 December 2021. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 22 March 2022. Following Tuesday's executions, the number of inmates sitting on death row in Japan stands at 107.