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  2. Sakura Sōgorō - Wikipedia

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    Kiuchi Sōgorō (木内 惣五郎), also known as Sakura Sōgorō (佐倉 惣五郎) (1605 – September 1653) was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shōgun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain .

  3. Shige Sakakura - Wikipedia

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    Shige Sakakura (坂倉しげ, Sakakura Shige, 1868 – September 9, 1915) was a Japanese baby farmer and serial killer who, together with two accomplices, was responsible for the murders of numerous infants in Hioki Wakasa (present-day Nagoya) between 1898 and 1913.

  4. List of massacres in Japan - Wikipedia

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    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. 18 - 20 September 2004 Ōmuta murders: Omuta, Fukuoka: Kitamura-gumi 4

  5. List of major crimes in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Three employees of a supermarket are found shot dead in a suspected robbery. Despite massive publicity, the case is still unsolved. 1997: Kobe child murders: 2: Kobe: Over several months, a 14-year-old boy, alias "Seito Sakakibara", attacks a total of four younger girls with a hammer or a knife, killing one of them.

  6. Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan - Wikipedia

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    Another notable one was located at Suzugamori in Shinagawa. Both sites are still sparsely commemorated in situ with memorial plaques and tombstones. [citation needed] The shogunate executed criminals in various ways: Boiling to death [1] Execution by burning [2] Crucifixion for killing a parent, husband etc. [citation needed]

  7. Sayama incident - Wikipedia

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    They mix わ and は to write は, one of the Japanese particles. Where one should write で in hiragana, they write 出 in Kanji. Ishikawa said a three-wheeled car had passed him on Kamakura Kaidō, when he was delivering the ransom note to Nakata's house. After his confession, the police found the three-wheeler driver who had passed Kamakura ...

  8. Jōkyō uprising - Wikipedia

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    And one of the seventeen clustered bodies had a larger pelvis and slender bones. Taking these into consideration, historical and medical researchers of the time concluded that it was highly possible that the seventeen clustered bodies were those of the executed farmers of the Jōkyō Uprising. [20] (The one with a larger pelvis must be Oshyun's ...

  9. Kaga ikki - Wikipedia

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    The Kaga ikki was a faction of the Ikkō-ikki, a gathering of peasant farmers, monks, priests, and jizamurai (upper-ranking peasant warriors) that espoused belief in Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism. Though nominally under the authority of the head abbot of the Hongan-ji , the Monshu , the ikkō-ikki proved difficult to control.