Sayama Incident

When

1963

Kind

Murder

Coordinates

35.85° N, 139.41° E

Description

1963 murder

Placed at the town its title names, Sayama.

1963 murder with possibly wrongful conviction

The Sayama incident occurred on May 1, 1963, when 16-year-old Yoshie Nakata was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by an unconfirmed individual in Sayama, Saitama, Japan. The incident, in which then-24-year-old Kazuo Ishikawa, a man of disputed guilt in the case, was imprisoned for 31 years, highlighted official discrimination against Japan's burakumin caste.

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