List of massacres in Japan

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred in Japan:

Date	Name	Location	Perpetrator	Deaths	Notes
12–15 April 1638	Mass beheadings at the final days of the Shimabara revolt	inside and around Hara Castle, Minamishimabara	Shogunate army	37,000	Rebels and sympathizers were beheaded by military forces. Afterwards, the Hara Castle was also burned to the ground.
December 1696	Yoshiwara spree killing	Yoshiwara	Sano Jirōzaemon	100+
1 March 1919	March 1st demonstrations	Korea under Japanese rule	Imperial Japanese Army	7,509	15,849 Koreans wounded
October 1920	Gando massacre	Jiandao	Imperial Japanese Army	5,000+[1]
July 1922	Shinano River incident	Shinano River	Okura zaibatsu	100+	Documentation on death incomplete
September 1923	Kantō Massacre	Kantō region	police and vigilantes	6,000+	Multiple incidents
May 1938	Tsuyama massacre	Tsuyama	Mutsuo Toi	30	3 injured
July 1945	Hanaoka incident	Ōdate	Imperial Japanese Army	418	113 prisoners of war executed; 307 also died
26 January 1948	Teigin case	Tokyo	Sadamichi Hirasawa	12	False verdict suspected
15 July 1949	Mitaka incident	Tokyo	Keisuke Takeuchi	8	20 injured. False verdict suspected
30 August 1974	Mitsubishi bombing	Tokyo	East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front	8	376 injured
4 November 1989	Sakamoto family murder	Yokohama	Aum Shinrikyo	3
27–28 June 1994	Matsumoto incident	Matsumoto	Aum Shinrikyo	8	500+ injured[2]
20 March 1995	Tokyo subway sarin attack	Tokyo	Aum Shinrikyo	13	6,252 injured
25 July 1998	Wakayama arsenic poison case	Sonobe district of Wakayama, Wakayama	Masumi Hayashi	4	64 injured[3]
29 September 1999	Shimonoseki Station massacre	Shimonoseki	Yasuaki Uwabe	5	10 injured
20 December 2000	Setagaya family murder	Setagaya	Unknown	4	Perpetrator never caught
8 June 2001	Osaka school massacre	Ikeda	Mamoru Takuma	8	15 injured
1 September 2001	Myojo 56 building fire	Shinjuku	Unknown	44	Perpetrator never caught
8 June 2008	Akihabara massacre	Chiyoda	Tomohiro Katō	7	10 injured
1 October 2008	Osaka Movie Theater fire[4]	Osaka	Kazuhiro Ogawa	16	Perpetrator's name never revealed to the public.
26 July 2016	Sagamihara stabbings	Sagamihara	Satoshi Uematsu	19	26 injured
6 October 2017	Hitachi City apartment arson[5]	Ibaraki	Hirobumi Komatsu	6
28 May 2019	Kawasaki stabbings	Kawasaki	Ryuichi Iwasaki[6]	3	16 injured
18 July 2019	Kyoto Animation arson attack[7]	Kyoto	Shinji Aoba	36	33 injured[8]

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References

1. Eckhardt Fuchs, Tokushi Kasahara, Sven Saaler. A New Modern History of East Asia. p. 196. ISBN 373700708X. Retrieved 2018-03-03. The Japanese forces then carried out the Gando Massacre, in which they indiscriminately attacked Koreans living in Eastern Manchuria and other regions, killing over 5,000 and burning down more than 3,500 homes.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. "Courts ignore reasonable doubt: lawyers". The Japan Times. 2006-11-16. Archived from the original on 2008-10-25. Retrieved 2008-02-04.
4. Fox News:Fire at Japanese Adult Video Theater Kills 15
5. Channel News Asia Five Children, Women dead in Japan 'arson attack':Reports
6. The Japan Times
7. Staff; agencies (2019-07-18). "Kyoto Animation fire: 12 feared dead after suspected arson attack on studio in Japan". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
8. "Death toll from arson attack on Kyoto Animation studio rises to 36". japantoday.com. Retrieved 2019-10-05.