Table of Contents of Statistics/Rankings/Graphs is here.

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

f:id:nbakki:20160119100454p:plain

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

下巻 死亡 第4表 死亡数,性・死因(死因簡単分類)・都道府県(21大都市再掲)別

www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/NewList.do?tid=000001028897

www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/Csvdl.do?sinfid=000031288493

Related Topics

Table of Contents of Statistics/Rankings/Graphs is here.