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 White paper on crime 2009 Part5/Chapter1/Section3 

Section 3  Property Damage

  Table 5-1-3-1 shows the number of reported cases (including cases without damage; hereinafter the same in this section) and amount of damages resulting from robbery, theft, fraud, extortion, and embezzlement and embezzlement of lost property, etc. (including cases in which victims are judicial persons or other organizations; hereinafter collectively referred to as “property offenses” in this section) over the last 10 years.
  The number of reported cases and amount of damage for property offenses was increasing until 2002, but started decreasing since 2003. The total amount of damage resulting from property offenses was equivalent to approximately 220 billion yen (approximately 110 billion yen of this was damage in cash) in 2008. By type of offense, the amount of damage resulting from theft accounted for the majority at 59.3% of total damage caused by property offenses, followed by fraud at 32.9% and embezzlement at 5.8%. The amount of damage in cash for fraud increased sharply in 2004 and accounted for 62.9% of total damage in cash for property offenses in 2008.
  By modus operandi of theft, in 2008 the amount of damage in cash for burglary theft was approximately 14.66 billion yen, non-burglary theft approximately 12.8 billion yen, and vehicle theft 0.17 billion yen (Source: Criminal Statistics by National Police Agency).

Table 5-1-3-1  Number of reported cases and amount of damage resulting from property offenses (1999–2008)