National / Crime & Legal Oct 21, 2020
Japan Justice Ministry to notify victims of death row executions
They will also be informed if inmates die due to reasons other than execution, such as illness.
National / Crime & Legal Oct 2, 2020
New justice minister pledges support for non-Japanese residents
by Magdalena Osumi
Yoko Kamikawa vowed to improve policies that impact foreign nationals in Japan as well as the transparency of the justice system.
National / Crime & Legal Sep 18, 2020
Aum cult leader Asahara's daughter to get his remains, court rules
The move comes amid a row over who will take possession of Aum Shinrikyo founder Shoko Asahara's ashes.
Asia Pacific Aug 6, 2020
China sentences Canadian to death for drugs amid strained ties
by Iain Marlow
A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian man to death on drug charges, a decision that follows capital punishment rulings handed down to other Canadians and comes as ties between Beijing and Ottawa remain fraught. The Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday sentenced Canadian Xu Weihong ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal Jun 13, 2020
An Australian national has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court for drug trafficking, a verdict that could further inflame tensions between Beijing and Canberra. Already troubled relations worsened recently after China reacted furiously to Australia's call for an independent probe into the origins ...
Asia Pacific / Crime & Legal May 20, 2020
A man has been sentenced to death in Singapore via a Zoom video-call for his role in a drug deal, the city-state's first case where capital punishment has been delivered remotely. Punithan Genasan, a 37-year-old Malaysian, received the sentence for his role in a 2011 ...
National / Crime & Legal Mar 31, 2020
Death penalty finalized for 2016 Sagamihara care home mass murderer
The death sentence for a man who admitted to the 2016 mass murder of 19 mentally impaired people at a care home near Tokyo was finalized Tuesday after he withdrew his appeal the previous day. Satoshi Uematsu, 30, a former caretaker at the Tsukui Yamayuri ...
Reference | FYI Mar 25, 2020
25 years after Tokyo subway attack, Aum is a shadow of its former self
by Eric Johnston
Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway trains shocked Japan and the world, raising concerns over nonstate organizations obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 23, 2020
In letter, executed former Aum member urged would-be terrorists to halt attacks
Tomomasa Nakagawa penned the letter in English and intended it for an American researcher.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 19, 2020
Sagamihara care home mass murderer won't appeal death penalty ruling
A man who was sentenced to death over the 2016 murder of 19 people with mental disabilities at a care home in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, said Wednesday he will not appeal the ruling. Satoshi Uematsu, a 30-year-old former employee at the Tsukui Yamayuri En care ...
National / Crime & Legal Feb 19, 2020
Man on trial for killing 19 at Sagamihara care home says he won't appeal
A man on trial for murdering 19 residents and injuring 26 other people in 2016, at a knife rampage at a care home for the mentally disabled, said Wednesday he would not launch an appeal regardless of the ruling. During the trial at the Yokohama ...
National / Crime & Legal Feb 17, 2020
Death penalty sought for man charged with killing 19 in Sagamihara rampage
Prosecutors on Monday demanded the death penalty for a man charged with murdering 19 residents and injuring 26 others at a care home for people with mental disabilities near Tokyo in a knife rampage in 2016. During the trial at the Yokohama District Court in ...