Sataro Fukiage
| Satarō Fukiage | |
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| Born |
Satarō Fukiage February 1889 Kyoto, Japan |
| Died | September 28, 1926 (aged 37) Japan |
| Cause of death | Hanging |
| Other names | Shinshūmaro |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Killings | |
| Victims | 7 |
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Span of killings
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1906–1924 |
| Country | Japan |
| State(s) | Kyoto, Gunma, Nagano, Saitama, Chiba |
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Date apprehended
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1924 |
Satarō Fukiage (吹上 佐太郎 Fukiage Satarō?, February 1889 – September 28, 1926) was a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He killed at least seven girls. He murdered his first victim in 1906, and killed six girls between 1923 and 1924. He was tried for three out of six cases, but his exact number of victims is unknown.
He raped a number of women besides the murder victims and according to one theory, he raped at least 93 girls. Some estimates say he raped more than 100 women.
He was born in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto. His family forced him to work at the age of eight. He frequently changed jobs. At the age of 11, he had sex with a girl about 17 years old, for which he lost his job. At 12, he was arrested for theft. Fukiage learned kana and math during the two months he spent in jail. He was arrested again for theft soon after his release, but learned classical Chinese while in jail the second time.
Fukiage had sex with a 54-year-old woman at the age of 17. He later raped the woman's 11-year-old daughter and some other girls in their neighborhood.
On September 24, 1906, he raped and murdered an 11-year-old girl at Kinkaku-ji. The victim was an acquaintance of his. At the time he was culturally considered to be 18 years old, although he was 17 years old under the western age system. In jail, he studied the works of Confucius, Mencius, Socrates, Aristotle and Nichiren. He was released in 1922 and found employment, but he was fired due to his criminal past. In April 1923, he was arrested for molesting a four-year-old girl, but was released.
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