January 28, 1905 - Yoshio Kodaira
His crimes spanned two decades and two countries, moving from wartime atrocities in China to a sustained campaign of murder in postwar Japan, where he exploited the desperation of women struggling to survive food shortages. The method was consistent: an offer of food or work, the seclusion of forested areas, and violence. What made his postwar killings particularly significant historically is that they unfolded in the immediate aftermath of Japan's defeat, when social dislocation created conditions he systematically used to his advantage.
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Yoshio Kodaira (小平 義雄, Kodaira Yoshio; 28 January 1905 – 5 October 1949) was a Japanese serial killer, war criminal and serial rapist who murdered at least 8 people in the Tokyo and Tochigi Prefecture areas between 1932 and 1946.
Kodaira killed his father-in-law in 1932 and later raped and murdered at least 7 women between 1945 and 1946 by inviting them into forested areas around Tochigi and Tokyo under the guise of giving them food or employment. Kodaira was sentenced to death after being convicted of killing the seven women and executed in 1949. Kodaira is suspected to have killed other people in Japan, and confessed to committing war crimes in China in the 1920s. However, the exact number of his victims is unknown.
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