Yukio Yamaji Explained

Yukio Yamaji
Birth Date:21 August 1983
Birth Place:Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan[1]
Death Place:Osaka Detention House, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka, Japan
Conviction:Murder (3 counts)
Conviction Penalty:Death
Conviction Status:Executed
Death Cause:Execution by hanging
Beginyear:July 29, 2000
Endyear:November 17, 2005
Country:Japan
States:Yamaguchi, Osaka
Victims:3 (including his mother)
Apprehended:December 5, 2005

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.

Biography

Yamaji was born into a poor family. His father died of cirrhosis in January 1995. After graduating from junior high school, he dropped out and began working at a newspaper store.

Matricide

Yamaji killed his 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat in Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi Prefecture at age 16 on July 29, 2000.[2] He called the police and was arrested on July 31, 2000. He stated that his motives to commit matricide were his mother's silent telephone calls to the woman with whom he had fallen in love and his mother's mounting debt. He was paroled in October 2003.[2]

Double homicide

On November 17, 2005, Yamaji raped and murdered a 27-year-old woman named Asuka Uehara and her 19-year-old sister, Chihiro, with a knife, in Naniwa, Osaka. He then set fire to their apartment and fled.[3] The two victims had never met Yamaji before. He was arrested on December 5, 2005. While in custody, he stated to the Osaka police, "I could not forget the feeling when I killed my mother, and wanted to see human blood."

Sentence

On December 13, 2006, the Osaka District Court sentenced him to death. His defense launched an appeal, but according to his lawyers he retracted it since he was reluctant to pursue leniency.[4] He was executed at the Osaka Detention House alongside Japanese serial killer Hiroshi Maeue on July 28, 2009.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 「殺したときには射精していました」"快楽殺人犯"とされた山地悠紀夫が女性殺しに走った本当のワケ. 文春オンライン. 2021-01-05. 2023-03-22. ja.
  2. Web site: Man to hang for sisters' murders . The Japan Times Online . 14 December 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120331222939/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20061214a3.html . dead . March 31, 2012 . 17 February 2012.
  3. Web site: The Osaka Sister Killer – Yukio Yamaji. 8 May 2020 . Morbirdology.
  4. Web site: Double-killer lets death sentence stand . The Japan Times Online . 2 June 2007 . 17 February 2012.
  5. Web site: Japan executes three for multiple murders . AFP . 27 July 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140226121801/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5guY7pPPbgneVElJ2vRGwhlUviGmg . dead . February 26, 2014 . 17 February 2012.