August 21, 1983 - Yukio Yamaji
What distinguishes his case in the record of Japanese violent crime is the pattern it describes: a killing within the family, a period of incarceration, release, and then further violence before his execution at twenty-five. The brevity of his life contained a concentrated sequence of harm that raised questions about the adequacy of the parole determination that preceded it.
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Yukio Yamaji (山地 悠紀夫, Yamaji Yukio; August 21, 1983 – July 28, 2009) was a Japanese serial killer. He murdered his own mother in 2000, was imprisoned, and then paroled in 2003. In 2005, two years after his release, he raped and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister, for which he was sentenced to death. He was executed in 2009.
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