Shige Sakakura

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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1. When was Shige Sakakura born?1868
2. When did Shige Sakakura die?September 9, 1915
3. What is the location of crimes?Hioki Wakasa, Japan (present-day Nagoya)
4. What is the period of criminal activity?Approximately 1898 to 1913 (15 years)
5. Who was Shige Sakakura?Shige Sakakura was a man from Japan who lived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He worked as a baby farmer, a job that was meant to care for babies, but he did very bad things.
6. When did Shige Sakakura live?He was born in 1868 and was active from 1898 until 1913. He was put on trial in 1915.

Baby Farmer: An individual who takes in infants for payment, often with the intent to neglect, abuse, or kill them.
Accomplice: A person who voluntarily helps another person commit a crime.
Serial Killer: An individual who commits a series of murders, typically with a cooling-off period between each murder.
Infanticide: The intentional killing of an infant.