In Japan, 11326 persons died by prostate cancer in 2015. The following data show the rate of deaths from prostate cancer by prefecture (The number of deaths by prostate cancer per million).
Figure: Rate of Deaths from Prostate Cancer by Prefecture in 2015
| Prefecture | Deaths | Male | Female | Per million |
| Yamagata | 163 | 163 | . | 144 |
| Fukushima | 253 | 253 | . | 131 |
| Shimane | 90 | 90 | . | 129 |
| Saga | 102 | 102 | . | 122 |
| Yamaguchi | 171 | 171 | . | 121 |
| Akita | 125 | 125 | . | 121 |
| Kagoshima | 200 | 200 | . | 120 |
| Nagano | 245 | 245 | . | 116 |
| Iwate | 148 | 148 | . | 115 |
| Miyazaki | 128 | 128 | . | 115 |
| Niigata | 265 | 265 | . | 115 |
| Hokkaido | 591 | 591 | . | 109 |
| Aomori | 142 | 142 | . | 107 |
| Gunma | 207 | 207 | . | 105 |
| Tottori | 59 | 59 | . | 103 |
| Wakayama | 99 | 99 | . | 102 |
| Tokushima | 74 | 74 | . | 97 |
| Miyagi | 225 | 225 | . | 97 |
| Nagasaki | 133 | 133 | . | 96 |
| Ibaraki | 280 | 280 | . | 96 |
| Shizuoka | 355 | 355 | . | 96 |
| Oita | 112 | 112 | . | 96 |
| Kochi | 70 | 70 | . | 95 |
| Tochigi | 186 | 186 | . | 94 |
| Kumamoto | 168 | 168 | . | 94 |
| Hiroshima | 265 | 265 | . | 94 |
| Ehime | 130 | 130 | . | 93 |
| Kyoto | 233 | 233 | . | 89 |
| Yamanashi | 75 | 75 | . | 89 |
| Mie | 162 | 162 | . | 89 |
| Nara | 122 | 122 | . | 89 |
| Toyama | 92 | 92 | . | 86 |
| Fukuoka | 433 | 433 | . | 85 |
| Saitama | 605 | 605 | . | 84 |
| Fukui | 66 | 66 | . | 84 |
| Chiba | 495 | 495 | . | 80 |
| Tokyo | 1060 | 1060 | . | 79 |
| Kanagawa | 707 | 707 | . | 78 |
| Kagawa | 76 | 76 | . | 77 |
| Osaka | 682 | 682 | . | 77 |
| Hyogo | 417 | 417 | . | 75 |
| Okayama | 144 | 144 | . | 75 |
| Aichi | 546 | 546 | . | 73 |
| Gifu | 149 | 149 | . | 73 |
| Ishikawa | 82 | 82 | . | 71 |
| Okinawa | 96 | 96 | . | 68 |
| Shiga | 91 | 91 | . | 64 |
Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare 人口動態調査 人口動態統計 確定数 死亡 年次 2015年
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