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Hiroshima Detention House
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Background
Hiroshima Detention House (åºå³¶æç½®æ, Hiroshima KÅchisho) is a correctional facility in Naka-ku, Hiroshima. A part of the penal system of Japan, it is operated by the Ministry of Justice. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is in this facility.
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Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
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Region
Naka-ku
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Notable inmates
- Jitsuo Kitamura1944–2025 · yakuza
- Takayuki Fukuda1981
Takayuki Åtsuki (大æ åè¡, Åtsuki Takayuki) (born March 1981), originally named Takayuki Fukuda (ç¦ç° åè¡, Fukuda Takayuki), was the perpetrator of the Hikari City Mother and Child Murder Incident (å å¸æ¯å殺害äºä»¶, Hikari-shi Boshi Satsugai Jiken) in Hikari, Yamaguchi, Japan on 14 April 1999.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q11484676)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Hiroshima Detention House. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hiroshima-detention-house
Chicago
"Hiroshima Detention House." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hiroshima-detention-house.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hiroshima-detention-house,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Hiroshima Detention House},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hiroshima-detention-house},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}