People executed by Japan by hanging

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

founder of the Japanese new religious group Aum Shinrikyo

Korean independence activist (1879–1910)

Japanese serial killer (1962–2008)

Japanese anarchist (1871–1911)

Japanese serial killer and rapist (1990–2025)

Japanese journalist (1881–1911)

perpetrator of the Akihabara massacre (1982-2022)

Japanese journalist, communist and Soviet spy (1901-1944)

Japanese murderer (1968-2009)

Korean independence activist (1900–1932) who attempted to assassinate the Japanese emperor

Japanese writer and murderer (1949–1997)

Japanese serial killer (1983–2009)

Japanese serial killer (1962 - 2006)

Japanese assassin (1899–1924)

Japanese mass murderer responsible for the 2001 Osaka School Massacre (1963–2004)

Japanese serial killer (1926–1959)

Japanese serial killer (1935–1976)

Japanese serial killer (1924–1944)

Japanese serial killer

Buddhist priest activist executed in the High Treason Incident

Japanese murderer (1968-2013)

Japanese terrorist (1964–2018)

Japanese serial killer (1948-2000)

Japanese serial killer (1925–1970)

Japanese perpetrator of the Tokyo subway sarin attack

(1962-2018)

(1949-2018)

Italian Jesuit missionary (1576-1633)

Japanese serial killer (1889–1926)