Article: Japan Hangs Three Killers As Pace of Executions Rises

Article: RIGHTS-JAPAN: CRIMES FUEL SUPPORT FOR DEATH PENALTY
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  December 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ......silent supporter of Japan's struggling movement...abolition of the death penalty, but not any more...public support in Japan for the death penalty. Last week, the...explains that Japan's Justice Minister...supporter of the death penalty, has promised...

Article: Q&A-JAPAN: EXONERATED INMATE SEEKS TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the campaign against Japan's death penalty. Japan is the only member of...than half a century. Japan's use of the death penalty is on the rise, whereas...that many people in Japan support the death penalty. Is there a strong grassroots...

Article: Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty [Correction 2/1/05]
The Washington Post;  January 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ......abolished the death penalty. The United...Basically, Japan's leaders are...information about the death penalty, so public opinion...row over the death penalty." Still, not...opponents in Japan question the...public backs the death penalty. In 34 ...

Article: JAPAN: OPPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY SEEK HELP FROM ABROAD.
Interpress Service;  March 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ......increasing support for the death penalty in Japan, as opposed to the trend...favor of keeping the death penalty in Japan. Hosaka singled out one...or maintenance of the death penalty. Such views are common in Japan, said Andrew Horvat...

Article: JAPAN: OPPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY SEEK HELP FROM ABROAD
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  March 12, 2008 ;     700+ words ......increasing support for the death penalty in Japan, as opposed to the trend...favor of keeping the death penalty in Japan. Hosaka singled out one...or maintenance of the death penalty." Such views are common in Japan, said Andrew Horvat...

Article: 80% in Japan favor death penalty - survey.(Opinion & Editorial)
Manila Bulletin;  February 21, 2005 ;     316 words ......respondents said the death penalty justly punishes...relatively rare in Japan, which has one...that retain the death penalty. Tokyo doesnt publicly...Opponents of the death penalty in Japan including Amnesty...support for the death penalty since the ...

Article: Just plead guilty and die; The death penalty in Japan.
The Economist (US);  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......start to wobble on Japan's judicial juggernaut IT WAS a rarity for Japan: two notable acquittals...have closed ranks. Japan's justice minister...changes are afoot in Japan's criminal-justice...especially of the death penalty, which means victims...parliament), describes ...

Article: A view to a kill: unlike capital punishment in the United States, Japan's death penalty is on the rise. Japanese officials keep state executions out of public view and shrouded in secrecy. Not even the condemned prisoners know the day they will die. Step inside the gallows for a rare look at how Japan takes a life.
Foreign Policy;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......reporting on the death penalty in Japan during the summer...arranged by Forum 90, Japan's leading anti-death penalty organization. But...description. On the death penalty, he would seem to...long-term study of Japan's criminal justice...

Article: At global death penalty forum, lawmaker says proposed bill seeks to end practice in Japan
AP Worldstream;  May 28, 2002 ;     304 words ......bill to outlaw the death penalty in Japan, as critics of...Abolition of the Death Penalty. Speaking on the...however, that Japan is far from ready...nations shunning the death penalty. His anti-death...which bans the death penalty as inhumane. ...

Article: Japan justice minister says he won't enforce death penalty, then retracts comment: report
AP Worldstream;  October 31, 2005 ;     249 words ......10-31-2005 Dateline: TOKYO Japan's newly appointed justice...reopen debate about the death penalty in Japan. Sugiura told reporters...meeting he would not sign death penalty orders because of his personal...Executions are rare in Japan. A former policeman convicted...executed ...

Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM FROM ABROAD.
Interpress Service;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......wavering on the death penalty issue when he...suggested that Japan's death penalty system could continue...procedure code of Japan, the justice minister...parliament) for the death penalty abolition, has...two-year study of the death penalty by a ...

Article: JAPAN: PROPONENTS OF DEATH PENALTY FACE CRITICISM FROM ABROAD
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......wavering on the death penalty issue when he...suggested that Japan's death penalty system could continue...procedure code of Japan, the justice minister...parliament) for the death penalty abolition, has...two-year study of the death penalty by a ...

Article: COMMENT: DEATH PENALTY FEEDS ANTI-US WAVE
United Press International;  March 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......issue of the death penalty. Both the United States and Japan have observer...continue to use the death penalty. The Council...United States or Japan, admits unofficially...the use of the death penalty. That Schwinmmer...by persuading Japan to accept that...

Article: DEATH PENALTY: ACTIVISTS REVEAL JAPAN'S DEATH ROW TO WORLD
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  October 10, 2008 ;     650 words ......International Japan. "While the majority supports the death penalty, they don't want...Coalition Against the Death Penalty denounced Japan for the "lack...practice of the death penalty." Thirteen people...been executed in Japan so far this year...