According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 288 persons were murdered in 2017. The following table shows the numbers of murder victims by prefecture in 2017.
Figure: Murder Rate (Number of Actual Victims) by Prefecture in Japan, 2017
| Prefecture | Victims | Male | Female | Population | Rate (per million) |
| Total | 288 | 159 | 129 | 124,648,471 | 2.31 |
| Ehime | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1,354,000 | 6.65 |
| Miyazaki | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1,083,000 | 5.54 |
| Kagawa | 5 | 2 | 3 | 959,000 | 5.21 |
| Yamaguchi | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1,369,000 | 4.38 |
| Shiga | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1,390,000 | 4.32 |
| Ibaraki | 12 | 7 | 5 | 2,847,000 | 4.21 |
| Niigata | 9 | 4 | 5 | 2,253,000 | 3.99 |
| Kumamoto | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1,754,000 | 3.99 |
| Osaka | 32 | 17 | 15 | 8,657,000 | 3.70 |
| Saga | 3 | 1 | 2 | 819,000 | 3.66 |
| Shizuoka | 13 | 8 | 5 | 3,605,000 | 3.61 |
| Tottori | 2 | 2 | 0 | 561,000 | 3.57 |
| Okinawa | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1,429,000 | 3.50 |
| Gifu | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1,970,000 | 3.05 |
| Nara | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1,338,000 | 2.99 |
| Fukuoka | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5,051,000 | 2.97 |
| Nagano | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2,047,000 | 2.93 |
| Kochi | 2 | 0 | 2 | 710,000 | 2.82 |
| Yamagata | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1,095,000 | 2.74 |
| Ishikawa | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1,136,000 | 2.64 |
| Fukui | 2 | 1 | 1 | 767,000 | 2.61 |
| Hiroshima | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2,789,000 | 2.51 |
| Aomori | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1,274,000 | 2.35 |
| Mie | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1,763,000 | 2.27 |
| Nagasaki | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1,346,000 | 2.23 |
| Hyogo | 12 | 5 | 7 | 5,417,000 | 2.22 |
| Fukushima | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1,871,000 | 2.14 |
| Wakayama | 2 | 1 | 1 | 939,000 | 2.13 |
| Kanagawa | 19 | 9 | 10 | 8,989,000 | 2.11 |
| Saitama | 15 | 10 | 5 | 7,174,000 | 2.09 |
| Tochigi | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1,930,000 | 2.07 |
| Akita | 2 | 0 | 2 | 992,000 | 2.02 |
| Hokkaido | 10 | 6 | 4 | 5,292,000 | 1.89 |
| Kagoshima | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1,617,000 | 1.86 |
| Oita | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1,142,000 | 1.75 |
| Okayama | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1,888,000 | 1.59 |
| Kyoto | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2,551,000 | 1.57 |
| Chiba | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6,141,000 | 1.47 |
| Aichi | 10 | 3 | 7 | 7,328,000 | 1.36 |
| Yamanashi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 811,000 | 1.23 |
| Iwate | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,249,000 | 0.80 |
| Tokyo | 10 | 5 | 5 | 13,273,000 | 0.75 |
| Gunma | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1,913,000 | 0.52 |
| Miyagi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2,305,000 | 0.43 |
| Toyama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,043,000 | 0.00 |
| Shimane | 0 | 0 | 0 | 678,000 | 0.00 |
| Tokushima | 0 | 0 | 0 | 739,000 | 0.00 |
| Unknown | 2 | 2 | 0 | N/A | N/A |
Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
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