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Murder Rate by Prefecture in Japan, 2013

In 2013, 938 homicide cases were reported. Those include attempt cases. The number of homicides decreased by 92 from 2012. According to the statistics of National Police Agency, Osaka was the most dangerous prefecture as usual. Tokyo dropped to 24th place from 11th place.

Table : Murder Rate by Prefecture in Japan, 2013 

Rank Prefecture Population Number of murders, including attempt cases Murder Rate per 100,000
capita
Kagawa is taken as 100
1 Osaka 8,849,000 132 1.49 210
2 Hiroshima 2,840,000 34 1.20 169
3 Kochi 745,000 8 1.07 151
4 Yamanashi 847,000 9 1.06 150
5 Fukuoka 5,090,000 54 1.06 149
6 Ishikawa 1,159,000 11 0.95 134
7 Ehime 1,405,000 13 0.93 130
8 Tottori 578,000 5 0.87 122
9 Oita 1,178,000 10 0.85 120
10 Okinawa 1,415,000 12 0.85 119
11 Yamaguchi 1,420,000 12 0.85 119
12 Kumamoto 1,801,000 15 0.83 117
13 Hyogo 5,558,000 46 0.83 117
14 Wakayama  979,000 8 0.82 115
15 Yamagata 1,141,000 9 0.79 111
16 Shizuoka 3,723,000 29 0.78 110
17 Iwate 1,295,000 10 0.77 109
18 Hokkaido 5,431,000 41 0.75 106
19 Toyama 1,076,000 8 0.74 105
20 Chiba 6,192,000 45 0.73 102
21 Kyoto 2,617,000 19 0.73 102
22 Ibaraki 2,931,000 21 0.72 101
23 Kagawa 985,000 7 0.71 100
24 Tokyo 13,300,000 94 0.71 100
25 Aomori 1,335,000 9 0.67 95
26 Gumma 1,984,000 13 0.66 92
27 Kagoshima 1,680,000 11 0.65 92
28 Nara 1,383,000 9 0.65 92
29 Saitama 7,222,000 46 0.64 90
30 Kanagawa 9,079,000 57 0.63 88
31 Tochigi 1,986,000 12 0.60 85
32 Saga 840,000 5 0.60 84
33 Nagano 2,122,000 12 0.57 80
34 Shiga 1,416,000 8 0.56 80
35 Tokushima 770,000 4 0.52 73
36 Fukui 795,000 4 0.50 71
37 Gifu 2,051,000 10 0.49 69
38 Akita 1,050,000 5 0.48 67
39 Okayama 1,930,000 9 0.47 66
40 Fukushima 1,946,000 9 0.46 65
41 Miyagi 2,328,000 10 0.43 61
42 Nagasaki 1,397,000 6 0.43 60
43 Niigata 2,330,000 10 0.43 60
44 Shimane 702,000 3 0.43 60
45 Aichi 7,443,000 29 0.39 55
46 Mie 1,833,000 5 0.27 38
47 Miyazaki 1,120,000 0 0.00 0

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If it excludes Osaka from the map above, the map is going to be like the below.

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Relatively western Japan is more dangerous than eastern Japan as usual, except Miyazaki.

Source is National Police Agency.

www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/List.do?bid=000001052201&cycode=0

www.e-stat.go.jp/SG1/estat/Xlsdl.do?sinfid=000023620698

 

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