The Japan Innocence and Death Penalty Information Center  (jiadep.org)

日本冤罪・死刑情報センター


Japan: Women and the Death Penalty: 3 Charts 


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Chart A: WOMEN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN JAPAN = 7


Chart B:  Women Executed in the Postwar Era (1970~now) =5


Chart C:  Women: Detention Deaths in the Postwar Era (2008~now) = 4







Fujinami Tomoko (F)

 藤波知子

b. 1945 age = 78

(Previous family name was Miyazaki.)

Nagoya

2007/03/24 Toyama DC

Retrial Request Dismissed.

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1998/09/04 SC

1992/03/31  Nagoya HC

1988/02/09 Toyama DC


Toyama Nagano Double Women Murder

富山長野2女性

殺人事件

1980.02.23 & 1980.03.06



A male accomplice first admitted guilt but later recanted, and was found not guilty. Insists the real culprit is someone else. 




Ishikawa Keiko(F)

石川恵子

b. 1959

Fukuoka

2006/09/21 SC

2003/03/27  Fukuoka HC Miyazaki Branch

2001/06/20  Miyazaki DC


Miyazaki Double

Women Murder

宮崎2女性

殺人事件

1996/08 & 97/06

Denies the charges, has plead innocent.


Hayashi Masumi (F)

林真須美

b. 1961/07/22


Osaka

2009/04/21 SC

2005/06/28  Osaka HC

2002/12/11 Wakayama DC




Wakayama Curry Case Murders (x4)

1998/07/25 



Insists upon innocence. Case based upon circumstantial evidence. 

Has support association and publishes a newsletter entitled "Aozora Tsuushin."


2021/06/20 New appeal filed. Currently being defended by a former judge.


Read Hayashi's letter to Michael Fox [ Read ]





Kazama Hiroko(F) 

風間博子

Tokyo

2009/06/05 SC

2005/07/11  Tokyo HC

2001/03/21  Urawa DC


Saitama Dog Lover's Multiple (x4) Murders Case


埼玉愛犬家

連続殺人事件


1993



Codefendant with Sekine Hajime who was sentenced to death and later died in prison. Denies participation in the murder.


Kitamura Mami (F)

北村真美

b. 1959



2011/10/03 SC

2007/12/25 Fukuoka HC

2006/10/17 Fukuoka DC Kurume Branch



Ohmuta Quadruple Murders

大牟田4人殺人事件

2004/09/18




Entire family of four sentenced to death. Husband and elder son sentenced on 2007/02/27.


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Doi Kanae (F)

木嶋佳苗

b. 1975


2017/04/13 SC

2014/03/12 Tokyo HC

2012/04/13 Saitama DC

Sequential Suspicious Tokyo Murders (x3)

首都圏連続不審死事件

2009 Jan~August

14th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. 

Previous name was Kijima

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Kakehi Chisako (F)

筧千佐子

b. 1947 Age= 76


2021/06/29 SC

2019/05/23 Osaka HC

2017/11/7 Kyoto DC

Triple Murder

(Husband and two common law partners)

27th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. 

70 years old at time of sentence. Suffers from dementia. High court denied a second psychiatric review.


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Women Executed

1970~Now



Yoshida Junko (F)

吉田純子

born 1959


Fukuoka


2016/03/30 Executed

(Age 57)

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10/03/18 SC

06/05/16  Fukuoka HC

04/09/24  Fukuoka DC 



Multiple Insurance Murders by Nurses

看護士連続保険金

殺人事件

98/01/24~

99/03/27


Sentenced to death despite confession. Actual culprits received lesser sentences. 

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Eto Sachiko (F)

江藤幸子

born 1947


2012/09/27 Executed

(age 65)


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08/09/16 SC

05/11/22  Sendai HC

02/05/10 Fukushima DC


Sukagawa Exorcist Deaths(x6)

須賀川信者6人変死事件

Dec '94  June '95

The defendant's mental competence was in dispute by experts. Co-conspirators received lesser sentences. ( More )



HN (F)


1997/08/11 Executed

Age 51

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Sentence confirmed after defendant withdrew  appeal.

Yubari Arson-Insurance Murders

1984/May (x4)

Husband executed on the same day. First instance of a married couple being executed together.

Sugimura Sadame  (F)

Born 1911


1970/09/19 Executed (Age 59)

Female Multiple Poisonings 

1960/Nov ~ Dec


Kobayashi Kau (F)

Born 1908


1970/06/11 Executed

(Age 52)

Hotel Nippon Kakusatsu Murders

1961/Feb




Female Deaths in Detention

2008~ present ( x4)

Ueta Miyuki (F)

上田美由紀

b. 1974


2023/01/14  Died (48)

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2017/07/27 SC

2014/03/20 Hiroshima HC

2012/12/04 Tottori DC 


Murder/Robbery of Two Male Acquaintances

15th death sentence handed down by mixed jurors. 


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Nagata Hiroko F)  

永田洋子

b. 1945/02/08

Tokyo

Died 2011/02/06 (Age 65)

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93/02/19 SC

86/09/26 Tokyo HC

82/06/18 Tokyo DC



Red Army Activities

連合赤軍事件

1971--72/02



Considered the charge of complicity to be extra-judicial and requested extradition abroad. Author of "16 Grave Inscriptions," "I am alive," and other works (in Japanese). 


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Sakamoto Haruno( F)

坂本春野

Osaka

Died 2011/01/27 (aged 83)


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04/11/19 SC

00/09/28 Takamatsu HC

98/07/29 Takamatsu DC


Kochi Double Murder Case

高知2件連続

殺人事件

87/01  92/08



8th woman to be sentenced to death in post-war era. Age 77 at time of SC sentence. Insisted upon innocence.

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Chiba Shoko (F)

千葉正子

b. 1962


2008/12/29 suicide. (Age 46)

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2008/10/08 Iwate DC


Iwate Temple Murder and Robbery

2007 June 11


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