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Hence, numerous <a href="/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes" title="Japanese war crimes">Japanese war crimes</a> often committed overseas during wartime that have also been classified as massacres may not be present in this list, such as the <a href="/wiki/Nanjing_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanjing massacre">Nanjing massacre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sook_Ching_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Sook Ching massacre">Sook Ching massacre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Changjiao_massacre" title="Changjiao massacre">Changjiao massacre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalagon_massacre" title="Kalagon massacre">Kalagon massacre</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palawan_massacre" title="Palawan massacre">Palawan massacre</a>, among others.</div> <p>The following is a list of <a href="/wiki/Massacre" title="Massacre">massacres</a> that have occurred in <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a> and its predecessor entities ranging back to the <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Tokugawa shogunate</a> (Some historical numbers may be approximate). The massacres are grouped into different time periods. Massacres have become a growing problem in contemporary Japan in recent years, with at least 110+ deaths during the 2010s. </p><p>Most notably, the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Animation_arson_attack" title="Kyoto Animation arson attack">Kyoto Animation arson attack</a> claimed at least 36 lives and injured an additional 34. It is one of the deadliest massacres in Japan since the end of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and the deadliest building fire in Japan since the 2001 <a href="/wiki/Myojo_56_building_fire" title="Myojo 56 building fire">Myojo 56 building fire</a>. It was considered "suicidal terrorism" by one criminology professor at Rissho University, as the attack was reportedly intended to be a suicide mission by the suspect.<sup id="cite_ref-ctvnews_20190719_suicidalterrorism_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ctvnews_20190719_suicidalterrorism-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2021, another arson attack occurred, this time at <a href="/wiki/2021_Osaka_building_fire" title="2021 Osaka building fire">a building in Osaka</a>, specifically at a psychiatric clinic located on the fourth floor. It killed 25 and injured an additional 3. The suspect, who died in hospital two weeks later, is believed to have been inspired by the 2019 attack in Kyoto.<sup id="cite_ref-JT1221_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JT1221-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Massacres">Massacres</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Massacres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2011</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Heian_period_(794–1185)"><span id="Heian_period_.28794.E2.80.931185.29"></span>Heian period (794–1185)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Heian period (794–1185)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001181-01-15-0000"></span>15 January 1181 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Nara" title="Siege of Nara">Siege of Nara</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Nara_Prefecture" title="Nara Prefecture">Nara</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Taira_clan" title="Taira clan">Taira clan</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4.500 </td> <td>The Taira clan set fire to temples and monasteries, in all 3,500 civilians, and 1,000 warrior monks died in the burning. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kamakura_period_(1185–1333)"><span id="Kamakura_period_.281185.E2.80.931333.29"></span>Kamakura period (1185–1333)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Kamakura period (1185–1333)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001193-06-28-0000"></span>28 June 1193 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Soga_Brothers" title="Revenge of the Soga Brothers">Revenge of the Soga Brothers</a> </td> <td>Kamino, <a href="/wiki/Fujino,_Shizuoka" title="Fujino, Shizuoka">Fujino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shizuoka_Prefecture" title="Shizuoka Prefecture">Shizuoka Prefecture</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Soga_Sukenari" title="Soga Sukenari">Soga Sukenari</a> and Tokimune </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5+ </td> <td>The Soga brothers, Soga Sukenari and Tokimune, assassinated <a href="/wiki/Kud%C5%8D_Suketsune" title="Kudō Suketsune">Kudō Suketsune</a>, the killer of their biological father. The incident included a failed assassination attempt on the shogun, and resulted in many deaths and injuries of unrelated participants. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sengoku_period_(1467–1603)"><span id="Sengoku_period_.281467.E2.80.931603.29"></span>Sengoku period (1467–1603)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sengoku period (1467–1603)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001571-09-30-0000"></span>30 September 1571 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Mount_Hiei" title="Siege of Mount Hiei">Siege of Mount Hiei</a> </td> <td>Inside the <a href="/wiki/Enryaku-ji" title="Enryaku-ji">Enryaku-ji</a> temple complex on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Hiei" title="Mount Hiei">Mount Hiei</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a>'s army </td> <td style="text-align: right;">1,500-4,000 </td> <td>Massacre of the Buddhist <a href="/wiki/S%C5%8Dhei" title="Sōhei">warrior monks</a> who refused to submit to the warlord <a href="/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001579-01-01-0000"></span>1579 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Itami_(1579)" title="Siege of Itami (1579)">Siege of Itami</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Itami_Castle" title="Itami Castle">Itami Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Settsu_Province" title="Settsu Province">Settsu Province</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Oda_Nobunaga" title="Oda Nobunaga">Oda Nobunaga</a>'s army </td> <td style="text-align: right;">670<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Defenders from the Itami clan and their families were killed after the capture of Itami Castle. </td></tr> <tr> <td>13 March – 4 September 1591 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kunohe_rebellion" title="Kunohe rebellion">Kunohe rebellion</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kunohe_Castle" title="Kunohe Castle">Kunohe Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mutsu_Province" title="Mutsu Province">Mutsu Province</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Ninohe,_Iwate" title="Ninohe, Iwate">Ninohe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture" title="Iwate Prefecture">Iwate Prefecture</a>) </td> <td>Forces of Toyotomi Hideyoshi </td> <td>unknown </td> <td>Toyotomi Hideyoshi forces executed the prisoners, along with Kunohe Masazane himself. The remaining defenders, including women and children, were forced into the second bailey, which was then set on fire. According to contemporary records, the fire burned for three days and three nights and killed all within.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001595-09-05-0000"></span>5 September 1595 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toyotomi_Hidetsugu#Biography" title="Toyotomi Hidetsugu">The massacre of Toyotomi Hidetsugu's entire family</a> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E6%9D%A1%E5%A4%A7%E6%A9%8B#三条河原(処刑場" class="extiw" title="jp:三条大橋">Sanjogawara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi" title="Toyotomi Hideyoshi">Toyotomi Hideyoshi</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">39 </td> <td>Hideyoshi ordered the execution of Hidetsugu's entire family, including children, wives and concubines.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tokugawa_shogunate_(1603–1868)"><span id="Tokugawa_shogunate_.281603.E2.80.931868.29"></span>Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1868)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001638-04-12-0000"></span>12–15 April 1638 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion#Aftermath" title="Shimabara Rebellion">Mass beheadings at the final days of the Shimabara revolt</a> </td> <td>Inside and around <a href="/wiki/Hara_Castle" title="Hara Castle">Hara Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minamishimabara" title="Minamishimabara">Minamishimabara</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" title="Tokugawa shogunate">Shogunate</a> army </td> <td style="text-align: right;">37,000 </td> <td>Rebels and sympathizers were beheaded by military forces. Afterwards, the Hara Castle was also burned to the ground. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001696-12-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">December 1696</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsujigiri#1696_spree_killing" title="Tsujigiri">Yoshiwara spree killing</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yoshiwara" title="Yoshiwara">Yoshiwara</a> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%90%E9%87%8E%E6%AC%A1%E9%83%8E%E5%B7%A6%E8%A1%9B%E9%96%80" class="extiw" title="ja:佐野次郎左衛門">Sano Jirōzaemon</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">? </td> <td>Sano Jirōzaemon murdered dozens of prostitutes with a katana in Yoshiwara<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Empire_of_Japan_(1868–1947)"><span id="Empire_of_Japan_.281868.E2.80.931947.29"></span>Empire of Japan (1868–1947)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Empire of Japan (1868–1947)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001893-05-25-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">25 May 1893</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kumatar%C5%8D_Kido_and_Yagor%C5%8D_Tani" title="Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani">Kawachi Jūningiri</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chihayaakasaka" title="Chihayaakasaka">Chihayaakasaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minamikawachi_District,_Osaka" title="Minamikawachi District, Osaka">Minamikawachi District</a>, Osaka<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kumatar%C5%8D_Kido_and_Yagor%C5%8D_Tani" title="Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani">Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">13 (including the perpetrators) </td> <td>Kumatarō Kido and Yagorō Tani killed eleven people before committing suicide. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001919-03-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">1 March 1919</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/March_1st_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="March 1st Movement">March 1st demonstrations</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule" title="Korea under Japanese rule">Korea under Japanese rule</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">7,509 </td> <td>15,849 Koreans wounded<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001919-04-15-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">15 April 1919</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jeamni_massacre" title="Jeamni massacre">Jeamni massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hwaseong,_Gyeonggi" title="Hwaseong, Gyeonggi">Hwaseong</a>, <a href="/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule" title="Korea under Japanese rule">Chōsen</a> </td> <td>Imperial Japanese Army </td> <td style="text-align: right;">20 to 30 </td> <td>Killing of 20 to 30 unarmed Korean civilians inside a church in Hwaseong by the Imperial Japanese Army </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001920-10-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">October 1920</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gando_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Gando massacre">Gando massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jiandao" title="Jiandao">Jiandao</a> </td> <td>Imperial Japanese Army </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5,000+<sup id="cite_ref-373700708X_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-373700708X-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001922-07-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">July 1922</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shinano_River_incident" title="Shinano River incident">Shinano River incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shinano_River" title="Shinano River">Shinano River</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Okura_Kihachiro" class="mw-redirect" title="Okura Kihachiro">Okura</a> <a href="/wiki/Zaibatsu" title="Zaibatsu">zaibatsu</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">100+<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td>Massacre of up to 100 Korean laborers who tried to escape the construction site by the Plant foremen<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001923-09-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">September 1923</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_Massacre" title="Kantō Massacre">Kantō Massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kant%C5%8D_region" title="Kantō region">Kantō region</a> </td> <td>Imperial Japanese Army, Police and vigilante civilians </td> <td style="text-align: right;">6,000+ </td> <td>With the explicit and implicit approval of parts of the Japanese government, the Japanese military, police, and vigilantes murdered an estimated 6,000 people: mainly ethnic Koreans, but also Chinese and misidentified Japanese, and Japanese communists, socialists, and anarchists, Multiple incidents occurred, including the <a href="/wiki/Fukuda_Village_Incident" title="Fukuda Village Incident">Fukuda Village Incident</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kameido_incident" title="Kameido incident">Kameido incident</a> and <a href="/wiki/Amakasu_Incident" title="Amakasu Incident">Amakasu Incident</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001928-05-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">May 1928</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Jinan_incident#Aftermath" title="Jinan incident">Kobe shooting</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kobe" title="Kobe">Kobe</a> </td> <td>Chinese man </td> <td style="text-align: right;">7<sup id="cite_ref-mt_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>-12<sup id="cite_ref-engsg_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-engsg-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (including the perpetrator) </td> <td>11 or 7 Japanese were shot to death by a Chinese man in Kobe in revenge for the Jinan incident and then he committed suicide<sup id="cite_ref-engsg_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-engsg-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mt_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mt-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001931-06-05-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">5 June 1931</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1931_Empress_of_Canada_stabbings" title="1931 Empress of Canada stabbings">1931 Empress of Canada stabbings</a> </td> <td>aboard RMS <a href="/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Canada_(1920)" title="RMS Empress of Canada (1920)">Empress of Canada</a>, off Japan </td> <td>Graciano Bilas </td> <td style="text-align: right;">2 </td> <td>42-year-old Filipino passenger Graciano Bilas killed two people and wounded 29 others with a knife </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001938-05-21-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">21 May 1938</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsuyama_massacre" title="Tsuyama massacre">Tsuyama massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsuyama" title="Tsuyama">Tsuyama</a> </td> <td>Mutsuo Toi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">31 (including the perpetrator) </td> <td>After cutting off electricity to his village, 21-year-old Mutsuo Toi proceeded to go on a late-night killing spree with a shotgun, a katana, and an axe before killing himself, 3 injured </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001944-09-02-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">2 September 1944</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chichijima_incident" title="Chichijima incident">Chichijima incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chichijima" title="Chichijima">Chichijima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonin_Islands" title="Bonin Islands">Ogasawara Islands</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 </td> <td>Japanese soldiers killed eight American airmen on <a href="/wiki/Chichijima" title="Chichijima">Chichi Jima</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Bonin_Islands" title="Bonin Islands">Bonin Islands</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Human_cannibalism" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalized</a> four of them. The ninth, and only one to evade capture, was future U.S. President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001945-07-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">July 1945</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hanaoka_mine#Hanaoka_Mine_Incident" title="Hanaoka mine">Hanaoka incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cdate" title="Ōdate">Ōdate</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army" title="Imperial Japanese Army">Imperial Japanese Army</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">418 </td> <td>113 <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a> executed; 307 also died </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Occupied_Japan_(1947–1952)"><span id="Occupied_Japan_.281947.E2.80.931952.29"></span>Occupied Japan (1947–1952)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Occupied Japan (1947–1952)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001948-01-26-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">26 January 1948</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sadamichi_Hirasawa#Teigin_case" title="Sadamichi Hirasawa">Teigin case</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tokyo" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sadamichi_Hirasawa" title="Sadamichi Hirasawa">Sadamichi Hirasawa</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">12 </td> <td>False verdict suspected </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001949-07-15-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">15 July 1949</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mitaka_incident" title="Mitaka incident">Mitaka incident</a> </td> <td>Tokyo </td> <td>Keisuke Takeuchi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 </td> <td>20 injured. False verdict suspected </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001949-08-17-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">17 August 1949</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Matsukawa_derailment" title="Matsukawa derailment">Matsukawa derailment</a> </td> <td>Between <a href="/wiki/Kanayagawa_Station" title="Kanayagawa Station">Kanayagawa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matsukawa_Station" title="Matsukawa Station">Matsukawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fukushima_Prefecture" title="Fukushima Prefecture">Fukushima Prefecture</a> </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td style="text-align: right;">3 </td> <td>A <a href="/wiki/Japanese_National_Railways" title="Japanese National Railways">Japanese National Railways</a> passenger train derails and overturns on the <a href="/wiki/T%C5%8Dhoku_Main_Line" title="Tōhoku Main Line">Tōhoku Main Line</a> between Kanayagawa and Matsukawa stations in Fukushima Prefecture due to sabotage, killing three crewmembers; all 412 passengers survive </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_of_Japan_(1952–present)"><span id="State_of_Japan_.281952.E2.80.93present.29"></span>State of Japan (1952–present)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_massacres_in_Japan&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: State of Japan (1952–present)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" style="width:100px;">Date </th> <th scope="col" style="width:200px;">Name </th> <th scope="col" style="width:120px;">Location </th> <th scope="col" style="width:125px;">Perpetrator </th> <th scope="col" style="width:50px;" data-sort-type="number">Deaths </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001966-06-30-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">30 June 1966</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Iwao_Hakamada#Incident_and_trial" class="mw-redirect" title="Iwao Hakamada">Hakamada Incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shimizu,_Shizuoka" title="Shimizu, Shizuoka">Shimizu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shizuoka_(city)" title="Shizuoka (city)">Shizuoka</a> </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 </td> <td>False verdict suspected </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001974-08-30-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">30 August 1974</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1974_Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries_bombing" title="1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing">Mitsubishi bombing</a> </td> <td>Tokyo </td> <td><a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Anti-Japan_Armed_Front" title="East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front">East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 </td> <td>Powerful bomb explodes at the <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Heavy_Industries" title="Mitsubishi Heavy Industries">Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marunouchi" title="Marunouchi">Marunouchi</a>. Eight killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001975-11-06-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">6 November 1975</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/1975_Aki_shooting" title="1975 Aki shooting">1975 Aki shooting</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aki,_K%C5%8Dchi" title="Aki, Kōchi">Aki</a>, <a href="/wiki/K%C5%8Dchi_Prefecture" title="Kōchi Prefecture">Kōchi Prefecture</a> </td> <td>Ikuya Hatakeyama </td> <td style="text-align: right;">6 </td> <td>31-year-old Ikuya Hatakeyama shoots eight of his neighbours with a 12-gauge shotgun, killing six and critically injuring two </td></tr> <tr> <td>26 - 28 January 1979 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Akiyoshi_Umekawa#Mitsubishi_Bank_hostage_incident" title="Akiyoshi Umekawa">Mitsubishi Bank hostage incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi_Bank" title="Mitsubishi Bank">Mitsubishi Bank</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sumiyoshi-ku,_Osaka" title="Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka">Sumiyoshi-ku</a>, Osaka </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Akiyoshi_Umekawa" title="Akiyoshi Umekawa">Akiyoshi Umekawa</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 (including the perpetrator) </td> <td>Akiyoshi Umekawa shot dead four people in a Mitsubishi Bank </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001980-01-31-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">31 January 1980</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%86%8A%E9%87%8E%E4%B8%80%E6%97%8F7%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:熊野一族7人殺害事件">Nigishima murders</a> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%8C%E6%9C%A8%E5%B3%B6%E7%94%BA" class="extiw" title="ja:二木島町">Nigishima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kumano,_Mie" title="Kumano, Mie">Kumano</a>, Mie Prefecture </td> <td>Kazumichi Ikeda </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 (including the perpetrator) </td> <td>Farmer Kazumichi Ikeda kills seven members of his family and injures 3 with an ax and a shotgun before killing himself<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001980-08-19-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">19 August 1980</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%BF%E8%A5%BF%E5%8F%A3%E3%83%90%E3%82%B9%E6%94%BE%E7%81%AB%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:新宿西口バス放火事件">Shinjuku bus attack</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shinjuku" title="Shinjuku">Shinjuku</a>, Tokyo </td> <td>Maruyama Hirobumi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">6 </td> <td>A mentally disturbed man Maruyama Hirobumi throws a bucket of petrol and a lit <a href="/wiki/Newspaper" title="Newspaper">newspaper</a> into a bus. The ensuing fire killed 6 and injured 14.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001982-02-09-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">9 February 1982</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_350" title="Japan Air Lines Flight 350">Japan Air Lines Flight 350</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Haneda_Airport" title="Haneda Airport">Haneda Airport</a>, Tokyo </td> <td>Seiji Katagiri </td> <td style="text-align: right;">24 </td> <td>Flight 350 was on approach to <a href="/wiki/Haneda_Airport" title="Haneda Airport">Haneda Airport</a> when the pilot Seiji Katagiri <a href="/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot" title="Suicide by pilot">deliberately</a> nose-dived the plane to crash it. The pilot was then subdued by other flight crews, yet the plane remained descending. It then crashed into <a href="/wiki/Tokyo_Bay" title="Tokyo Bay">Tokyo Bay</a>. The pilot who deliberately nose-dived the plane was suffering from <a href="/wiki/Mental_disorder" title="Mental disorder">mental illness</a> before the incident </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001989-08-09-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">9 August 1989</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E6%89%8B%E7%9C%8C%E7%A8%AE%E5%B8%82%E7%94%BA%E5%A6%BB%E5%AD%905%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:岩手県種市町妻子5人殺害事件">Taneichi murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Taneichi,_Iwate" title="Taneichi, Iwate">Taneichi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture" title="Iwate Prefecture">Iwate</a> </td> <td>Hidetake Kakuchiyama<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td>Hidetake Kakuchiyama, a former fishing crew member, murders his wife and 4 children over a divorce dispute in Taneichi, Iwate<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001989-11-05-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">5 November 1989</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sakamoto_family_murder" title="Sakamoto family murder">Sakamoto family murder</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Isogo-ku,_Yokohama" title="Isogo-ku, Yokohama">Isogo-ku</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yokohama" title="Yokohama">Yokohama</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo" title="Aum Shinrikyo">Aum Shinrikyo</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">3 </td> <td>Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a lawsuit against the cult Aum Shinrikyo, was kidnapped and murdered by members of the cult along with his wife and 14-month-old son </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001994-06-27-0000"></span>27–28 June 1994 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Matsumoto_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Matsumoto incident">Matsumoto incident</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Matsumoto,_Nagano" title="Matsumoto, Nagano">Matsumoto</a> </td> <td>Aum Shinrikyo </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 </td> <td>Members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult released <a href="/wiki/Sarin" title="Sarin">sarin gas</a> near the homes of several judges who presiding over legal cases involving the cult. 500+ injured<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001995-03-20-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">20 March 1995</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack" title="Tokyo subway sarin attack">Tokyo subway sarin attack</a> </td> <td>Tokyo </td> <td>Aum Shinrikyo </td> <td style="text-align: right;">13 </td> <td>6,252 injured </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001998-07-25-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">25 July 1998</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wakayama_arsenic_poison_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakayama arsenic poison case">Wakayama arsenic poison case</a> </td> <td>Sonobe district of <a href="/wiki/Wakayama,_Wakayama" class="mw-redirect" title="Wakayama, Wakayama">Wakayama, Wakayama</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Masumi_Hayashi_(murderer)" title="Masumi Hayashi (murderer)">Masumi Hayashi</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 </td> <td>Four people are killed and 63 injured after eating curry laced with <a href="/wiki/Arsenic" title="Arsenic">arsenic</a> at a community festival in Wakayama. Masumi Hayashi, the chief suspect, has been sentenced to death and is currently appealing.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001999-09-08-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">8 September 1999</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%A0%E8%A2%8B%E9%80%9A%E3%82%8A%E9%AD%94%E6%AE%BA%E4%BA%BA%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:池袋通り魔殺人事件">Ikebukuro massacre</a> </td> <td>Tokyo </td> <td><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Zota" class="extiw" title="fr:Hiroshi Zota">Hiroshi Zota</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">2 </td> <td>6 injured<sup id="cite_ref-jt16_04_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jt16_04-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000001999-09-29-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">29 September 1999</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shimonoseki_Station_massacre" title="Shimonoseki Station massacre">Shimonoseki Station massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shimonoseki" title="Shimonoseki">Shimonoseki</a> </td> <td>Yasuaki Uwabe </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td>Yasuaki Uwabe, a former architect, drove a rented car into Shimonoseki Station and hit at least 7 people, two of whom died before the car got stuck. He then proceeded to stab pedestrians at random with a kitchen knife, injuring 4 and killing a further 3. Uwabe was eventually apprehended by a station worker and was arrested shortly after. Uwabe was executed in 2012. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002000-12-30-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">30 December 2000</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Setagaya_family_murder" title="Setagaya family murder">Setagaya family murder</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Setagaya,_Tokyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Setagaya, Tokyo">Setagaya</a> </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 </td> <td>A Family of four are murdered at their home in suburban Tokyo by an unknown intruder, the case remains unsolved. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002001-05-08-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">8 May 2001</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E5%AF%8C%E5%A3%AB%E5%BC%98%E5%89%8D%E6%94%AF%E5%BA%97%E5%BC%B7%E7%9B%97%E6%AE%BA%E4%BA%BA%E3%83%BB%E6%94%BE%E7%81%AB%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6#死刑執行" class="extiw" title="ja:武富士弘前支店強盗殺人・放火事件">Takefuji Hirosaki branch arson murder case</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hirosaki" title="Hirosaki">Hirosaki</a>, Aomori prefecture </td> <td>Mitsuhiro Kobayashi<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td>A Former taxi driver Mitsuhiro Kobayash kills 5 employees and hurts 4 during a robbery followed by arson at a <a href="/wiki/Takefuji" title="Takefuji">Takefuji Corp</a> branch in Hirosaki.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002001-06-08-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">8 June 2001</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ikeda_school_massacre" title="Ikeda school massacre">Ikeda school massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ikeda,_Osaka" title="Ikeda, Osaka">Ikeda</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mamoru_Takuma" title="Mamoru Takuma">Mamoru Takuma</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">8 </td> <td>37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered an elementary school in Osaka, then used a kitchen knife to kill 8 students. He wounded an additional 13 other students and 2 teachers </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002001-09-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">1 September 2001</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Myojo_56_building_fire" title="Myojo 56 building fire">Myojo 56 building fire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Shinjuku,_Tokyo" class="mw-redirect" title="Shinjuku, Tokyo">Shinjuku</a> </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td style="text-align: right;">44 </td> <td>Perpetrator never caught. </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002003-06-20-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">20 June 2003</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fukuoka_family_murder_case" title="Fukuoka family murder case">Fukuoka family murder case</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Higashi-ku,_Fukuoka" title="Higashi-ku, Fukuoka">Higashi-ku</a>, Fukuoka </td> <td>Wei Wei, Yang Ning and Wang Liang </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 </td> <td>Businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto, his wife Chika and two children aged 11 and 8 are murdered in a robbery by three Chinese students who broke into their home and dumped their bodies in Hakata Bay. Two of the three - Yang Ning and Wang Liang – fled to China where they were arrested. Yang was executed and Wang sentenced to life imprisonment. The third, Wei Wei, was arrested in Japan and was held on death row until finally executed in December 2019. </td></tr> <tr> <td>18 - 20 September 2004 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cmuta_murders" title="Ōmuta murders">Ōmuta murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/%C5%8Cmuta,_Fukuoka" title="Ōmuta, Fukuoka">Omuta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fukuoka" title="Fukuoka">Fukuoka</a> </td> <td>Kitamura-gumi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 </td> <td>Mob wife Mami Kitamura murders four people with her husband and two sons. </td></tr> <tr> <td>19 - 23 March 2008 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/List_of_mass_stabbing_incidents_(before_2010)#Tsuchiura,_Japan_(2008)" title="List of mass stabbing incidents (before 2010)">Tsuchiura massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tsuchiura" title="Tsuchiura">Tsuchiura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibaraki_Prefecture" title="Ibaraki Prefecture">Ibaraki</a> </td> <td><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Kanagawa" class="extiw" title="es:Masahiro Kanagawa">Masahiro Kanagawa</a> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">2 </td> <td>7 injured<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002008-06-08-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">8 June 2008</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Akihabara_massacre" class="mw-redirect" title="Akihabara massacre">Akihabara massacre</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chiyoda,_Tokyo" title="Chiyoda, Tokyo">Chiyoda</a> </td> <td>Tomohiro Katō </td> <td style="text-align: right;">7 </td> <td>10 injured </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002008-10-01-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">1 October 2008</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Osaka_movie_theater_fire" class="mw-redirect" title="Osaka movie theater fire">Osaka movie theater fire</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Osaka" title="Osaka">Osaka</a> </td> <td>Kazuhiro Ogawa<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td> <td style="text-align: right;">16 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002010-01-12-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">12 January 2010</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/2010_Habikino_shooting" title="2010 Habikino shooting">2010 Habikino shooting</a> </td> <td>Iichan bar, <a href="/wiki/Habikino" title="Habikino">Habikino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osaka_Prefecture" title="Osaka Prefecture">Osaka Prefecture</a> </td> <td>Yasuhisa Sugiura </td> <td style="text-align: right;">4 (including the perpetrator) </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002013-03-14-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">14 March 2013</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Etajima_stabbings" class="mw-redirect" title="Etajima stabbings">Etajima stabbings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Etajima,_Hiroshima" title="Etajima, Hiroshima">Etajima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hiroshima" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a> </td> <td>Chen Shuangxi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">2 </td> <td>6 Wounded </td></tr> <tr> <td>21 – 22 July 2013 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Yamaguchi_arson_and_murders" title="Yamaguchi arson and murders">Yamaguchi arson and murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mitake,_Sh%C5%ABnan,_Yamaguchi" title="Mitake, Shūnan, Yamaguchi">Mitake</a> </td> <td>Kosei Homi </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002015-03-09-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">9 March 2015</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B7%A1%E8%B7%AF%E5%B3%B65%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:淡路島5人殺害事件">Sumoto stabbings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sumoto,_Hy%C5%8Dgo" title="Sumoto, Hyōgo">Sumoto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Awaji_Island" title="Awaji Island">Awaji Island</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hy%C5%8Dgo_Prefecture" title="Hyōgo Prefecture">Hyōgo Prefecture</a> </td> <td>Tatsuhiko Hirano </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td>Tatsuhiko Hirano stabs five neighbors with a knife in two separate homes in Sumoto, Awaji Island<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002015-05-17-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">17 May 2015</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B7%9D%E5%B4%8E%E5%B8%82%E7%B0%A1%E6%98%93%E5%AE%BF%E6%B3%8A%E6%89%80%E7%81%AB%E7%81%BD" class="extiw" title="ja:川崎市簡易宿泊所火災">Kawasaki building fire</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kawasaki,_Kanagawa" title="Kawasaki, Kanagawa">Kawasaki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kanagawa_Prefecture" title="Kanagawa Prefecture">Kanagawa Prefecture</a> </td> <td>Unknown </td> <td style="text-align: right;">11 </td> <td>11 people died and 17 were seriously injured in an <a href="/wiki/Arson" title="Arson">arson attack</a> on 2 buildings<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002016-07-26-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">26 July 2016</span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sagamihara_stabbings" title="Sagamihara stabbings">Sagamihara stabbings</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sagamihara" title="Sagamihara">Sagamihara</a> </td> <td>Satoshi Uematsu </td> <td style="text-align: right;">19 </td> <td>26 injured </td></tr> <tr> <td>5 - 6 June 2017 </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E9%83%A1%E5%A6%BB%E5%AD%903%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:小郡妻子3人殺害事件">Ogori murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Og%C5%8Dri,_Fukuoka" title="Ogōri, Fukuoka">Ogori</a>, Fukuoka </td> <td>Mitsuru Nakata </td> <td style="text-align: right;">3 </td> <td>A Former police officer Mitsuru Nakata kills his wife and two children<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span data-sort-value="000000002017-10-06-0000" style="white-space:nowrap">6 October 2017</span> </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E7%AB%8B%E5%A6%BB%E5%AD%906%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:日立妻子6人殺害事件">Komatsu family murder</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hitachi,_Ibaraki" title="Hitachi, Ibaraki">Hitachi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibaraki_Prefecture" title="Ibaraki Prefecture">Ibaraki</a> </td> <td>Hirobumi Komatsu </td> <td style="text-align: right;">6 </td> <td>Hirobumi Komatsu killed his wife and five children by stabbing, he then set the bodies on fire.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>31 March - 1 April 2018 </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E7%BD%AE%E5%B8%825%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6#脚注" class="extiw" title="ja:日置市5人殺害事件">Hioki murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Hioki,_Kagoshima" title="Hioki, Kagoshima">Hioki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kagoshima_Prefecture" title="Kagoshima Prefecture">Kagoshima Prefecture</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyushu" title="Kyushu">Kyushu</a> </td> <td>Tomohiro Iwakura </td> <td style="text-align: right;">5 </td> <td>Tomohiro Iwakura Kills Four Members of His Family and a Neighbor by Strangulation<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>25 - 26 November 2018 </td> <td><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E5%8D%83%E7%A9%826%E4%BA%BA%E6%AE%BA%E5%AE%B3%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6" class="extiw" title="ja:高千穂6人殺害事件">Takachiho Murders</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Takachiho,_Miyazaki" title="Takachiho, Miyazaki">Takachiho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nishiusuki_District,_Miyazaki" title="Nishiusuki District, Miyazaki">Nishiusuki District</a>, <a 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href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Puerto_Rico" title="List of massacres in Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Romania" title="List of massacres in Romania">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Russia" title="List of massacres in Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Rwanda" title="List of massacres in Rwanda">Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe" title="List of massacres in São Tomé and Príncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Serbia" title="List of massacres in Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Singapore" title="List of massacres in Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Slovakia" title="List of massacres in Slovakia">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Slovenia" title="List of massacres in Slovenia">Slovenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Solomon_Islands" title="List of massacres in the Solomon Islands">Solomon Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Africa" title="List of massacres in South Africa">South Africa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Korea" title="List of massacres in South Korea">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_South_Sudan" title="List of massacres in South Sudan">South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Spain" title="List of massacres in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Sri_Lanka" title="List of massacres in Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Sudan" title="List of massacres in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Syria" title="List of massacres in Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Taiwan" title="List of massacres in Taiwan">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Thailand" title="List of massacres in Thailand">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Turkey" title="List of massacres in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Uganda" title="List of massacres in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Ukraine" title="List of massacres in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States" title="List of massacres in the United States">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Venezuela" title="List of massacres in Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Vietnam" title="List of massacres in Vietnam">Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Yemen" title="List of massacres in Yemen">Yemen</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:lightblue;;width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">By war</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Killings_and_massacres_during_the_1948_Palestine_war" title="Killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war">1948 Palestine war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_during_the_Algerian_Civil_War" title="List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War">Algerian Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Bosnian_War" title="List of massacres in the Bosnian War">Bosnian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Croatian_War_of_Independence" title="List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence">Croatian War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Eritrean_War_of_Independence" title="List of massacres in the Eritrean War of Independence">Eritrean War of Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Finnish_Civil_War" title="List of massacres in the Finnish Civil War">Finnish Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Kosovo_War" class="mw-redirect" title="List of massacres in the Kosovo War">Kosovo War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massacres_in_the_course_of_the_Nagorno-Karabakh_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Massacres in the course of the Nagorno-Karabakh War">Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_engagements_during_the_Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)#Massacres" title="List of engagements during the Sudanese civil war (2023–present)">Sudanese civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_during_the_Syrian_civil_war" title="List of massacres during the Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_massacres_during_the_Greco-Turkish_War_(1919%E2%80%931922)" title="List of massacres during the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)">Greco-Turkish War</a></li> <li><a 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