The country of Japan has 100 people on death row .
List of death row inmates
Name Crime Time on death row NotesShinji AobaPerpetrator of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, where 36 people died.Aoba committed the arson due to the belief that the animation studio had plagiarized his work.Masanori AokiPerpetrator of the 2023 Nagano attack, in which he killed two women and two police officers responding to the attack.Drugged and drowned his uncle in 2008, and killed a woman a year later to steal their life insuranceAccomplice was sentenced to life imprisonment.Committed three arson-murders between 2010 and 2011 in an attempt to have his wife return to him.Asayama's wife, an accomplice in the third crime, received an 18-year sentence.Murdered two employees at a pachinko parlor during a failed robbery.Chinese illegal aliens and the first foreign nationals to be sentenced to death in Japan since 1964. A third accomplice, alleged to be the ringleader, fled overseas and is an internationally wanted fugitive.He LiBroke into his ex-girlfriend's home and stabbed to death her older sister and a former classmate.The ex-girlfriend and a male friend of her older sister were also stabbed, but survived.Killed his ex-girlfriend's parents and set their house on fire in 2021.Withdrew his appeals a month after his conviction.Tsune EtoMurdered a married couple in Sakai.Yukiharu FuchigamiKilled an accomplice in a car insurance scam in March 1999, and then another man in September of that year.Suffers from muscular dystrophyMasayasu FujiiOrdered the murders of three people over monetary disputes between 1970 and 1973.His two accomplices were also sentenced to death initially, but had the sentences commuted to life on appeal.Kidnapped and killed a high school girl and a female office worker in February and March 1980, then made phone calls to demand ransom.A man named Hiroshi Kitano was arrested as her alleged accomplice, but was later found not guilty and exonerated.
Fujinami is currently Japan's longest-serving female death row inmate.Soji FujisakiMurdered two elderly women during separate robberies in January 2005.Alleged to be mentally-ill.Gangster who ordered the murders of two acquaintances to avoid being implicated in other crimes.Since his original conviction, Goto has confessed involvement in additional murders.Kunihiko HamakawaShot and killed an insurance agent and a trader in separate incidents in 1994, then stole money from their bank accounts.His accomplice Haruseki Kin was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the crimesHired a hitman to kill his younger brother to so he can acquire their deceased mother's inheritance.At the time of the crime, Hasegawa was on parole from a life sentence for a previous murder. The hitman, Katsumi Suzuki, received a 30-year sentence for his role in the murder.Masumi HayashiCommitted a mass poisoning at a 1998 summer festival by putting poison in a pot of curry. The poisoning killed two children and two adults.Stabbed the president and managing director of a dried fish store during a robbery in 2012.Hida, a former employee at the store, claims he is innocent and is appealing to have a retrial.Murdered his lover's husband in 1992 and one of her sons in 1998 to secure their insurance.His lover, Reiko Yamaguchi, was initially sentenced to death but later had her sentence reduced to life imprisonment.Kosei HomiSet ablaze multiple buildings in the town of Mitake in July 2013, killing five people.Yoshitomo HoriMurdered married couple Kazuo and Satomi Magoori during a robbery of their pachinko parlor in Owariasahi on June 28, 1998.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.Murdered the owners of a mahjong parlor over a drug smuggling dispute, dismembering them alive with an electric saw.Multiple accomplices were convicted and received lesser sentences, while another remains a wanted fugitive. First death sentence to be passed by a lay judge in the country.Hayato ImaiMurdered at least three elderly patients at a nursing home from November to December 2014, where he worked as a nurse.Takeo InokumaFormer police officer who murdered five people in the vicinity of Lake Yamanaka in October 1984.Inokuma asserts that he was forced to commit the killings on behalf of a loan shark.Keiko IshikawaMurdered two women in Miyazaki Prefecture in 1994 and 1996.Strangled to death four family members and a male neighbor between March and April 2018.Toshiaki KagaStabbed and strangled a mother and her daughter at their home in Isehara, then withdrew money from their bank accounts.Stabbed to death a police officer during a robbery, stole his gun, and then killed a store clerk in another robbery.Neither of the murder weapons were never recovered, and Kamimiya continues to insist that he is innocent.Murdered two girlfriends in 1999 and 2003, dismembering their remains afterwards.Stabbed to death a 21-year-old housewife in Kumamoto during an attempted rape.The crime was committed shortly after he was released from prison for a 1969 murder conviction. Kanekawa was originally sentenced to life imprisonment, but this was changed to a death sentence on appeal.Murdered two acquaintances in separate incidents in January and July 2016.Withdrew his appeals and his death sentence finalized.Hiroko KazamaTogether 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.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 KijimaConvicted for poisoning three would-be husbands and suspected of four more, spanning from 2007 to 2009.Also known as "The Konkatsu Killer", for her frequenting of "konkatsu" (marriage-hunting) websites.Mami KitamuraMurdered four people between September 18 to 20, 2004. All four member of the family were part of the Kitamura-gumi gang.Jitsuo KitamuraTakashi KitamuraTakahiro KitamuraMasato KobayashiLeaders of a gang of youths who raped and murdered three people across three prefectures over a period of 11 days.Both Haga and Kurosawa were initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but their sentences were commuted to death on appeal.Atsushi KurosawaStabbed to death his wife and five children at their home in Hitachi, then set the house on fire.Stabbed to death civil servant Takehiko Yamaguchi and his wife during a home invasion.Also attacked another civil servant, Kenji Yoshihara, who survived.
Koizumi, a diagnosed schizophrenic, claimed that the attack was carried out as revenge for the government euthanizing his pet dog.Masataka KurayoshiMurdered a man and a woman during a failed robbery in Fukuoka.Murdered his girlfriend in 2005, followed by his wife in 2010.Murdered a woman and her son who interrupted him during a burglary in their house.Chinese national. He also attacked another one of the sons, who survived the attack.Hiromi ManakaMurdered two classmates in August and September 1989.East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front terrorist who participated in the bombing of several offices between 1972 and 1975, killing eight people and injuring numerous others.Murdered a family of three in 2010.Three accomplices in the crime received lesser sentences.Kazufumi ItoKenji MatsumotoMurdered two people during separate robberies in September 1990 and September 1991.Alleged to be mentally-ill due to being born with Minamata disease.Futoshi MatsunagaDefrauded, tortured and murdered seven to nine people between 1996 and 1998.His accomplice, Junko Ogata, received a life sentence.Nobuyuki MorimotoMurdered two Filipina women.One of his accomplices' death sentences was later reduced to life, while the other died before the trial could conclude.Masami MukaiMurdered two women in separate attacks in Shizuoka and Aichi from 1996 to 1997.Alleges that he is innocent for one of the murders, claiming that the police tortured him into confessing.Strangled a mother and her adult son during a failed robbery, then set their house ablaze.His younger brother was sentenced to life imprisonment.Suffocated his ex-wife when she refused to reconcile with him; later killed a female acquaintance after several days of torture to satisfy his sadistic fetishes.Sumio NakaharaOrdered the murders of two Taishu-kai members due to an internal dispute.Police officer who murdered his wife and two children in Ogori in 2017.Due to the fact that the evidence is mostly circumstantial, some allege that Nakata is innocent.Murdered two women in separate robberies in November and December 2011.Murdered an elderly woman in the mountains near Fukuyama to steal her credit cards.Crime was committed while on parole from a life sentence for a previous murder. Originally sentenced to life, later commuted to death on appeal.
Was tried twice before and received a life sentence both times prior to a third retrial, in which he was resentenced to death.Murder of two employees at an electronics retail store in Fukuoka.A juvenile accomplice was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment.