Murder Rate (Number of Actual Victims) by Prefecture in Japan, 2015

According to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 314 persons were murdered in 2015. The following table shows the numbers of murder victims by prefecture in 2015.

Figure: Murder Rate (Number of Actual Victims) by Prefecture in Japan, 2015

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Strangely, the most dangerous prefecture Tottori and the safest prefecture Shimane (no victim) are next to each other.

Table: Murder Rate (Number of Actual Victims) by Prefecture in Japan, 2015

Prefecture	Population	Victims	Male	Female	Rate, per million
Total	127083000	314	138	176	2.5
Tottori	574000	5	2	3	8.7
Okinawa	1421000	11	7	4	7.7
Oita	1171000	8	3	5	6.8
Akita	1037000	7	4	3	6.8
Ishikawa	1156000	5	4	1	4.3
Kanagawa	9096000	39	21	18	4.3
Wakayama	971000	4	3	1	4.1
Kagawa	981000	4	1	3	4.1
Mie	1825000	7	2	5	3.8
Osaka	8836000	32	13	19	3.6
Ehime	1395000	5	3	2	3.6
Yamanashi	841000	3	1	2	3.6
Hiroshima	2833000	10	6	4	3.5
Saitama	7239000	25	5	20	3.5
Hyogo	5541000	18	8	10	3.2
Iwate	1284000	4	2	2	3.1
Nara	1376000	4	0	4	2.9
Chiba	6197000	18	7	11	2.9
Shiga	1416000	4	1	3	2.8
Yamagata	1131000	3	1	2	2.7
Hokkaido	5400000	14	5	9	2.6
Miyagi	2328000	6	3	3	2.6
Shizuoka	3705000	9	3	6	2.4
Yamaguchi	1408000	3	1	2	2.1
Aichi	7455000	13	8	5	1.7
Kumamoto	1794000	3	2	1	1.7
Fukuoka	5091000	8	2	6	1.6
Okayama	1924000	3	2	1	1.6
Kyoto	2610000	4	3	1	1.5
Aomori	1321000	2	1	1	1.5
Gifu	2041000	3	1	2	1.5
Nagasaki	1386000	2	0	2	1.4
Nagano	2109000	3	3	0	1.4
Kochi	738000	1	0	1	1.4
Tokushima	764000	1	0	1	1.3
Fukui	790000	1	1	0	1.3
Saga	835000	1	0	1	1.2
Fukushima	1935000	2	0	2	1.0
Tochigi	1980000	2	0	2	1.0
Toyama	1070000	1	1	0	0.9
Miyazaki	1114000	1	0	1	0.9
Tokyo	13390000	10	3	7	0.7
Ibaraki	2919000	2	2	0	0.7
Kagoshima	1668000	1	1	0	0.6
Gunma	1976000	1	1	0	0.5
Niigata	2313000	1	1	0	0.4
Shimane	697000	0	0	0	0.0