National Police Agency reports the crime rate by prefecture every year. According to the 2013 latest report, Osaka was the most dangerous prefecture again.
The ranking order of 1st - 4th (Osaka, Fukuoka, Aichi, Hyogo) is the same as the 2012 order. Tokyo dropped from 5th to 6th place. Akita was the safest again.
| Rank | Prefecture | Reported crimes | Population | Crime Rate per 100,000 capita |
Kanagawa is taken as 100 |
| 1 | Osaka | 151,413 | 8,849,000 | 1711 | 202 |
| 2 | Fukuoka | 66,794 | 5,090,000 | 1312 | 155 |
| 3 | Aichi | 96,839 | 7,443,000 | 1301 | 153 |
| 4 | Hyogo | 70,532 | 5,558,000 | 1269 | 150 |
| 5 | Chiba | 77,904 | 6,192,000 | 1258 | 148 |
| 6 | Tokyo | 162,557 | 13,300,000 | 1222 | 144 |
| 7 | Kyoto | 31,944 | 2,617,000 | 1221 | 144 |
| 8 | Ibaraki | 35,055 | 2,931,000 | 1196 | 141 |
| 9 | Saitama | 84,154 | 7,222,000 | 1165 | 137 |
| 10 | Shiga | 15,447 | 1,416,000 | 1091 | 129 |
| 11 | Gifu | 22,357 | 2,051,000 | 1090 | 129 |
| 12 | Mie | 19,726 | 1,833,000 | 1076 | 127 |
| 13 | Okayama | 19,824 | 1,930,000 | 1027 | 121 |
| 14 | Ehime | 13,598 | 1,405,000 | 968 | 114 |
| 15 | Tochigi | 18,924 | 1,986,000 | 953 | 112 |
| 16 | Gumma | 18,820 | 1,984,000 | 949 | 112 |
| 17 | Wakayama | 9,110 | 979,000 | 931 | 110 |
| 18 | Saga | 7,509 | 840,000 | 894 | 105 |
| 19 | Nara | 12,337 | 1,383,000 | 892 | 105 |
| 20 | Yamanashi | 7,461 | 847,000 | 881 | 104 |
| 21 | Kochi | 6,530 | 745,000 | 877 | 103 |
| 22 | Kanagawa | 76,962 | 9,079,000 | 848 | 100 |
| 23 | Kagawa | 8,340 | 985,000 | 847 | 100 |
| 24 | Miyagi | 19,367 | 2,328,000 | 832 | 98 |
| 25 | Hiroshima | 22,592 | 2,840,000 | 795 | 94 |
| 26 | Shizuoka | 29,395 | 3,723,000 | 790 | 93 |
| 27 | Okinawa | 10,820 | 1,415,000 | 765 | 90 |
| 28 | Hokkaido | 41,066 | 5,431,000 | 756 | 89 |
| 29 | Tokushima | 5,818 | 770,000 | 756 | 89 |
| 30 | Fukushima | 14,596 | 1,946,000 | 750 | 88 |
| 31 | Niigata | 17,320 | 2,330,000 | 743 | 88 |
| 32 | Tottori | 4,279 | 578,000 | 740 | 87 |
| 33 | Yamaguchi | 10,292 | 1,420,000 | 725 | 85 |
| 34 | Miyazaki | 7,997 | 1,120,000 | 714 | 84 |
| 35 | Kumamoto | 12,836 | 1,801,000 | 713 | 84 |
| 36 | Nagano | 14,791 | 2,122,000 | 697 | 82 |
| 37 | Fukui | 5,285 | 795,000 | 665 | 78 |
| 38 | Ishikawa | 7,481 | 1,159,000 | 645 | 76 |
| 39 | Shimane | 4,379 | 702,000 | 624 | 74 |
| 40 | Toyama | 6,383 | 1,076,000 | 593 | 70 |
| 41 | Kagoshima | 9,276 | 1,680,000 | 552 | 65 |
| 42 | Yamagata | 6,178 | 1,141,000 | 541 | 64 |
| 43 | Oita | 6,290 | 1,178,000 | 534 | 63 |
| 44 | Nagasaki | 7,318 | 1,397,000 | 524 | 62 |
| 45 | Aomori | 6,515 | 1,335,000 | 488 | 58 |
| 46 | Iwate | 5,757 | 1,295,000 | 445 | 52 |
| 47 | Akita | 3,972 | 1,050,000 | 378 | 45 |
Source is National Police Agency.
www.npa.go.jp/hakusyo/h26/data.html
www.npa.go.jp/hakusyo/h26/toukei/00/01.xls
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