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Objectives In this study, we compared the decrease in cancer mortality rates among prefectures in Japan using age-period-cohort (APC) analysis.Methods We used the cancer mortality data of each prefecture in Japan, as determined by the Vital Statistics, over 5-year periods from 1995 to 2015. Records of the number of mortalities in each 5-year age group from 40-44 to 85-89 years age was collected. We fitted a Bayesian APC model to the data of each prefecture and estimated the birth cohort effect on cancer mortality rates in the prefectu