Fig. 5-1-1-1 shows the number of reported non-traffic penal code offenses (excluding dangerous driving causing death or injury; hereinafter the same in this chapter) involving individuals (excluding cases where the victim is a corporation or another legal entity) and their rate per 100,000 persons over the last 10 years.
  The number of reported cases and such occurrence rate both have been decreasing and are lowering since 2003. In 2006, the rate of offenses involving male victims was higher by more than 900 points than such involving female victims.
  In this chapter, “victims” means “persons who have been harmed by offenses” and even in offenses in which the benefit and protection of the law is considered to be for the society or the state, such as arson or obstructing performance of public duty, persons such as the owner of the house set on fire or the assaulted public servant shall be included in “victims.”

Fig. 5-1-1-1  Number of reported cases of non-traffic penal code offenses involving human victims and their rate per 100,000 persons (1997-2006)