- Yukio Yamaji
nihongo|Yukio Yamaji|山地 悠紀夫|Yamaji Yukio|extra=born
1983 is a Japanese triple killer who murdered his own mother, a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister.Yamaji was born in poor family and his father died of
cirrhosis in January1995 . After he graduated from junior high school, he did not enter high school and began working at the newspaper store. He killed his 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat in Yamaguchi,Yamaguchi Prefecture onJuly 29 ,2000 at the age of 16. He called police and was arrested onJuly 31 . His motive was his mother's silent telephone for the woman who he fell in love with, and his mother'sdebt . He was paroled in October2003 and was released officially in March2004 . However, his work after the release was illegal.On
November 17 ,2005 , Yamajirape d a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister and murdered them with a knife, in Naniwa,Osaka . The two victims had never met Yamaji. He was arrested onDecember 5 ,2005 . He said to the Osaka police "I could not forget the feeling when I killed my mother, and wanted to see human blood." [ [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061214a3.html Man to hang for sisters' murders] "Japan Times", December 14, 2006] OnDecember 13 ,2006 , Osaka district court sentenced him to death. His defense made an appeal but he retracted the appeal onMay 31 ,2007 . The Ministers of Justice have not decided the date of his execution yet.References
* [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20051220a5.html Man admits to slaying Osaka sisters] "
Japan Times "December 20 ,2005
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-122788220.html Man pleads guilty to murdering 2 sisters in Osaka] "Kyodo News "May 1 ,2006
* [http://www.gaijinpot.com/read_news.php?id=9383&time= Jobless man sentenced to death for murdering Osaka sisters] "Mainichi Shimbun "December 13 ,2006
* [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061214a3.html Man to hang for sisters' murders] "Japan Times "December 14 ,2006
* [http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070602a6.html Double-killer lets death sentence stand] "Japan Times "June 2 ,2007 ee also
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Neomugicha incident - Yamaji was one of the juvenile killers in Japan in 2000.
*(Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the first incident case
*(Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the second incident caseExternal links
* [http://yabusaka.moo.jp/yamaji.htm 山地悠紀夫事件]
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