• The Fukuoka family murder case (福岡一家4人殺害事件, Fukuoka ikka yonin satsugai jiken) was a robbery-murder by Wei Wei (Chinese: 魏巍; pinyin: Wèi Wēi) and two...
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  • Japanese sport wrestler Shinjiro Matsumoto (松本 真二郎), victim in Fukuoka family murder case, where Wei Wei was convicted and executed Sho Matsumoto (松本 翔...
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  • 500. 2003 Fukuoka family murder case 4 Fukuoka Businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto, his wife Chika and two children aged 11 and 8 are murdered in a robbery...
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  • to her friends and family claiming to be her, then fled to China after the body was finally discovered. Fukuoka family murder case, committed by three...
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  • 2024. Retrieved 16 May 2024. "New details emerge in grisly Japanese murder case that saw six killed in remote scenic village - South China Morning Post"...
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  • November 2009. Retrieved 9 November 2009. "Man wanted over Briton's murder was in Osaka, Fukuoka". The Mainichi Daily News. 9 November 2009. Archived from the...
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  • Wednesday Strangler (category 1975 murders in Japan)
    Wednesday. The killings are also referred to as the Saga Women Murders. Three of the murder cases (of the fifth through seventh victims, in 1989) were prosecuted...
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  • to Koda's family affiliation with the United Church of Christ, a cross tattoo was inscribed upon his arm. The family was from Nōgata, Fukuoka, a small...
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  • punishment is a legal penalty for murder in Japan, and is applied in cases of multiple murder or aggravated single murder. Executions in Japan are carried...
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  • Fuller-Sandys murder case". NZ Herald. "Murder, they said". The Listener (January 5–11, 2008 Vol 212 No 3530) White, Mike (27 March 2022). "Framed for murder, part...
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  • Sokichi Furutani (category History of Fukuoka Prefecture)
    and Fukuoka, with the seven murders and two attempted robberies being designated as "Police Agency Wide Area Important Designated Case No. 105 Case". This...
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  • Futoshi Matsunaga (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    Futoshi Matsunaga was born in Kokurakita Ward of the city of Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture, and grew up in Yanagawa. Matsunaga received good grades in...
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  • him on the suspicion of murder. On 14 December, the prosecution formally charged Chen with intimidation and murder, and the case was later scheduled for...
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  • Junko Ogata (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    killer Futoshi Matsunaga. Ogata was born in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, and grew up in a wealthy family. She was Matsunaga's schoolmate in high school, but...
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  • Akira Nishiguchi (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    priesthood when he came of age and was sent to a Catholic mission school in Fukuoka Prefecture for his secondary education. Unable to bear the school's strict...
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  • Ikki Kajiwara. In April 1997, Pai was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered by a group of people led by Chen Chien-hsing (陳進興; Chén Jìnxīng), Lin Chun-sheng...
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  • Takeshige Hamada (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    together with his wife and two accomplices, murdered three people over life insurance policies in Fukuoka from 1978 to 1979. He was sentenced to death...
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  • Tetsuyuki Morikawa (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    parole for another murder reinforced their view that he could not be rehabilitated. Morikawa appealed the sentence to the Fukuoka High Court two days...
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    Introduction to The Edogawa Rampo Reader. Fukuoka: Kurodahan Press. ISBN 978-4-902075-25-0. Kawana, Sari (2008), Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese...
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    Chuo-ku, Fukuoka Itami Air Base, Itami, Hyogo Itazuke Administration Annex (Kasugabaru DHA), Kasuga, Fukuoka Itazuke Air Base, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka Johnson...
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    Lorenzen Wright (category 2010s missing person cases)
    first-degree murder in the shooting death of Lorenzen Wright and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. List of solved missing person cases Watts, Micaela...
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    Capital punishment in Japan (category Murder in Japan)
    usually passed in cases of multiple murders, although there have been some extremely grave cases where individuals who committed a single murder have been sentenced...
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  • Yasutoshi Kamata (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    serial killer responsible for the murder and dismemberment of four women and one girl in Osaka between 1985 and 1994. The case was designated by the National...
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    Hema Upadhyay (category Indian murder victims)
    Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Japan Foundation, Tokyo and the Henie Onstad Kunssenter...
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  • August 2021, the Fukuoka District Court sentenced Satoru Nomura, the fifth head of Kudo-kai, to death for murder and attempted murder. This was the first...
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  • Justice has executed two men: the Kanagawa housewife murderer and the Fukuoka threefold murderer". Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 2 August 2019. Archived...
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    Thomas Noguchi (category People from Fukuoka Prefecture)
    Scala, Inger Stevens, Sharon Tate, and Natalie Wood. Noguchi was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, raised in Yokosuka and graduated from Tokyo's Nippon Medical...
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    and one of three perpetrators of the 2003 Fukuoka family murders, in which Shinjiro Matsumoto and his family died. One of Wei's two accomplices, who both...
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  • Shojiro Nishimoto (category Japanese people convicted of murder)
    at the Nagoya Detention House, while Tadashi Makino was hanged at the Fukuoka Detention House. List of serial killers by country List of executions in...
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  • 2007 Sasebo shooting (category 2007 murders in Japan)
    fleeing. The prefectural police departments of Nagasaki and neighboring Fukuoka deployed the Special Assault Team shortly after the incident. At 1:00 a...
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