A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

Japan's new justice minister has defended the country's commitment to capital punishment, rejecting calls for its abolition, despite renewed public debate sparked by the acquittal of a man ...

On the the 30th anniversary of the treaty taking effect, Japan should start taking steps toward ending its legal system’s reliance on capital punishment. One important move concerning the issue ...

Japan uses the death penalty sparingly, executing approximately 3 prisoners per year. A unique justification for keeping capital punishment has been put forward by some Japanese psychologists who ...

Since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in December 2012, eight Japanese prisoners have been executed. A 2009 government poll, often cited when the issue of capital punishment ...

Japan and the United States are the only two countries in the Group of Seven advanced nations that retain capital punishment. In Japan, executions are carried out in secrecy and prisoners are not ...

The Japan Federation of Bar Associations criticized the execution and called for an end to capital punishment. According to the justice ministry, Kato's execution leaves the total number of death ...

Where capital punishment is used such mistakes cannot ... Source: Death Penalty Information Center In Japan, the accused are only informed of their execution moments before it is scheduled.