Changes in Number of Murder Victims by Prefecture in Japan, 2005-2014

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare counts people's deaths and those causes day by day. The tables below show the changes in number of murder victims by prefecture in Japan between 2005 and 2014.

Table 1: Number of murder victims by prefecture, 2005-2010

Prefecture	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Hokkaido	27	34	19	20	18	15
Aomori	9	10	8	10	5	3
Iwate	9	11	7	6	5	3
Miyagi	12	19	10	12	9	8
Akita	2	5	3	4	2	4
Yamagata	2	9	5	4	6	3
Fukushima	12	6	7	8	10	8
Ibaraki	14	6	7	15	10	11
Tochigi	8	7	5	9	12	4
Gunma	12	14	7	11	6	5
Saitama	33	32	25	27	21	24
Chiba	17	18	18	29	25	15
Tokyo	29	26	33	28	20	15
Kanagawa	40	42	44	55	37	34
Niigata	11	6	10	6	8	6
Toyama	1	1	4	2	3	0
Ishikawa	2	2	3	10	6	5
Fukui	1	1	2	1	0	2
Yamanashi	4	2	0	3	9	2
Nagano	5	3	8	1	3	8
Gifu	11	3	6	9	4	4
Shizuoka	20	19	15	22	15	20
Aichi	51	32	30	21	33	24
Mie	3	7	12	10	5	13
Shiga	5	13	4	1	6	3
Kyoto	15	13	15	8	8	14
Osaka	70	54	46	45	40	52
Hyogo	25	35	28	20	23	29
Nara	13	5	8	6	4	8
Wakayama	2	7	5	5	7	6
Tottori	2	2	4	4	2	2
Shimane	6	3	3	4	2	2
Okayama	6	6	5	11	5	9
Hiroshima	12	19	11	7	14	17
Yamaguchi	9	8	11	7	8	4
Tokushima	6	5	3	3	3	2
Kagawa	7	9	10	3	1	4
Ehime	7	4	7	8	4	8
Kochi	7	4	3	4	8	3
Fukuoka	25	33	23	40	22	11
Saga	0	3	2	3	2	2
Nagasaki	4	5	3	4	1	2
Kumamoto	6	6	8	10	5	5
Oita	5	4	3	2	4	3
Miyazaki	2	9	2	2	3	4
Kagoshima	11	4	8	8	16	3
Okinawa	14	8	9	7	13	3
Total	600	580	516	546	479	437

Table 2: Number of murder victims by prefecture, 2011-2014

Prefecture	2011	2012	2013	2014	2005-2014 total
Hokkaido	21	21	17	12	133
Aomori	5	4	3	4	45
Iwate	1	3	1	2	41
Miyagi	7	9	5	4	70
Akita	1	4	2	3	20
Yamagata	3	4	2	4	29
Fukushima	8	5	3	5	51
Ibaraki	4	9	1	10	63
Tochigi	4	3	7	6	45
Gunma	5	7	8	11	55
Saitama	23	25	16	21	162
Chiba	24	13	21	25	122
Tokyo	14	11	7	11	151
Kanagawa	32	32	33	37	252
Niigata	6	2	7	4	47
Toyama	4	2	4	1	11
Ishikawa	4	1	3	0	28
Fukui	4	1	2	6	7
Yamanashi	8	3	3	1	20
Nagano	1	1	1	3	28
Gifu	4	10	6	3	37
Shizuoka	12	19	10	11	111
Aichi	23	15	11	17	191
Mie	11	7	6	2	50
Shiga	5	4	5	4	32
Kyoto	9	11	12	9	73
Osaka	36	36	31	36	307
Hyogo	14	25	12	9	160
Nara	6	2	6	4	44
Wakayama	2	6	2	3	32
Tottori	2	2	3	1	16
Shimane	1	0	1	2	20
Okayama	7	3	2	6	42
Hiroshima	20	11	21	6	80
Yamaguchi	7	5	10	4	47
Tokushima	1	3	6	0	22
Kagawa	5	3	3	2	34
Ehime	4	7	6	5	38
Kochi	4	1	2	2	29
Fukuoka	21	21	16	17	154
Saga	4	1	2	3	12
Nagasaki	6	2	0	3	19
Kumamoto	7	10	5	5	40
Oita	10	6	5	10	21
Miyazaki	1	4	3	6	22
Kagoshima	6	4	2	3	50
Okinawa	3	3	6	13	54
Total	415	383	342	357	3117