Murder Rate (Number of Actual Victims) by Prefecture in Japan, 2014
According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 356 persons were murdered in 2014. The following table shows the numbers of murder victims by prefecture, 2012-2014.
Prefecture | Number of victims 2014 | Number of victims 2013 | Number of victims 2012 | 2012-2014 average | Victim per 10 million |
Oita | 10 | 5 | 6 | 7.0 | 60 |
Okinawa | 13 | 6 | 3 | 7.3 | 52 |
Yamaguchi | 4 | 10 | 5 | 6.3 | 45 |
Hiroshima | 6 | 21 | 11 | 12.7 | 45 |
Gumma | 11 | 8 | 7 | 8.7 | 44 |
Ehime | 5 | 6 | 7 | 6.0 | 43 |
Kyoto | 9 | 12 | 11 | 10.7 | 41 |
Tokushima | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3.0 | 39 |
Miyazaki | 6 | 3 | 4 | 4.3 | 39 |
Osaka | 36 | 31 | 36 | 34.3 | 39 |
Fukui | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3.0 | 38 |
Wakayama | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3.7 | 38 |
Kanagawa | 37 | 33 | 32 | 34.0 | 37 |
Kumamoto | 5 | 5 | 10 | 6.7 | 37 |
Shizuoka | 11 | 10 | 19 | 13.3 | 36 |
Fukuoka | 17 | 16 | 21 | 18.0 | 35 |
Tottori | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2.0 | 35 |
Chiba | 25 | 21 | 13 | 19.7 | 32 |
Gifu | 3 | 6 | 10 | 6.3 | 31 |
Hokkaido | 12 | 17 | 21 | 16.7 | 31 |
Shiga | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4.3 | 31 |
Yamagata | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3.3 | 29 |
Nara | 4 | 6 | 2 | 4.0 | 29 |
Akita | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3.0 | 29 |
Saitama | 21 | 16 | 25 | 20.7 | 29 |
Yamanashi | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2.3 | 28 |
Aomori | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3.7 | 28 |
Hyogo | 9 | 12 | 25 | 15.3 | 28 |
Mie | 2 | 6 | 7 | 5.0 | 27 |
Kagawa | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2.7 | 27 |
Tochigi | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5.3 | 27 |
Miyagi | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6.0 | 26 |
Saga | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2.0 | 24 |
Ibaraki | 10 | 1 | 9 | 6.7 | 23 |
Kochi | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1.7 | 23 |
Fukushima | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4.3 | 22 |
Toyama | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2.3 | 22 |
Aichi | 17 | 11 | 15 | 14.3 | 19 |
Okayama | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3.7 | 19 |
Niigata | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4.3 | 19 |
Kagoshima | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3.0 | 18 |
Iwate | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2.0 | 16 |
Shimane | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 14 |
Nagasaki | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1.7 | 12 |
Ishikawa | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1.3 | 12 |
Nagano | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1.7 | 8 |
Tokyo | 11 | 7 | 11 | 9.7 | 7 |
Figure: The Average Murder Rate by Prefecture per 10 million. 2012-2014
Oita prefecture is the most dangerous region. Okinawa is the second most dangerous. Nagano prefecture is the safest, and Tokyo is the second safest.
Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. 人口動態調査
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