Takayuki Fukuda

Who is Takayuki Fukuda?

Takayuki Otsuki was the perpetrator of the Hikari Parent-child Murder Incident in Hikari, Yamaguchi, Japan, on 14 April 1999. On that day, when he was 18 years and 1 month old, he killed the wife of a white-collar worker and then performed necrophilia on the body, and also killed her daughter Yuka Kimura, and stole their wallet. He was charged with the capital crime of rape, murder, and robbery, and was handed the death sentence although he was not of the age of maturity at that time. The petty bench of the supreme court rejected the appeal, confirming the death sentence.

During the trial, the brutality of the details of the incident and the demands by the defense lawyers that teenagers ought not receive the death sentence were widely reported in mass media, sparking a debate within Japan.