This thesis compares five property crimes, such as robbery, theft, fraud, extortion and embezzlement across Taiwan, Korea and Japan from 1905 to 1942. We found that there is a close relationship between social chaos and property crimes. Cross-section and FGLS analysis showed that robbery, theft and extortion were strongly correlated with population density. However, population density didn’t correlate with fraud and embezzlement. Our results suggest correlation between socio-economic indicators and crime is different for each crime. The data organized in this thesis is available online.