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EXECUTIONS

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2018
Aum founder Shoko Asahara was mentally competent during detention, sources maintain
Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara, who was executed Friday for numerous crimes, suffered no psychiatric problems, sources with knowledge of his behavior in a detention facility said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 6, 2018
Capital punishment in Japan: Unscheduled executions and hangings witnessed only by prison officials and a priest
Japan and the United States are the only two members of the Group of Seven advanced economies that have the death penalty.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / Deep Dive
Mar 19, 2018
1995 Aum sarin attack on Tokyo subway still haunts, leaving questions unanswered
Hitoshi Jin describes his younger brother spending the booming 1980s "cult surfing," exploring what new religions had to offer to fill the gaping spiritual void left by a childhood scarred by an abusive father.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jan 21, 2018
After more than 20 years of trials, Japan's Supreme Court removes final obstacle to Aum executions
After more than 20 years of court battles, Aum Shinrikyo cult founder Shoko Asahara and his death row accomplices can now be executed for their crimes.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2017
North Korea conducts public executions for theft, watching South Korea media: report
North Korea carries out public executions on riverbanks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued Wednesday said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 26, 2017
Hamas executes three Palestinians over killing it says was ordered by Israel
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement executed three Palestinians on Thursday convicted of killing a commander in the Islamist group's armed wing while acting on Israel's orders.
JAPAN / Society
Apr 11, 2017
Rights group renews criticism of death penalty in Japan
Japan executed three people last year and imposed three new death sentences in what Amnesty International has also described as a secretive system.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 17, 2017
Opposition lawmaker files impeachment complaint against Duterte over extrajudicial killings, graft
An impeachment complaint was filed Thursday in the Philippine Congress against President Rodrigo Duterte, citing alleged involvement in extrajudicial killings in the government's drug war, graft and corruption as grounds for removing him from office.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2016
Burglar in Kyushu slayings hanged
A robber who murdered two people during break-ins in Kumamoto is hanged, marking the first execution signed by Justice Minister Katsutoshi Kaneda.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 6, 2016
Amnesty slams Japan over death penalty as global executions soar
A human rights group says recorded executions worldwide surged by more than 50 percent last year to the highest level in a quarter-century.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / ANALYSIS
Dec 18, 2015
Japan hangs prisoners days after lawyers' call for death penalty review
The executions of two death row inmates on Friday was a blow to the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, which only last week reiterated a call for a moratorium on hangings and for a national debate on the matter.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 9, 2015
Japan lawyers' group slams 'inhumane' death penalty, calls for suspension, national debate
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations on Wednesday condemned capital punishment as "inhumane" and called on Justice Minister Mitsuhide Iwaki to set up an panel of experts to review the policy.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 29, 2015
Eight drug convicts go before Indonesia firing squad; Filipina spared at last moment
Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad in the early minutes of Wednesday, local media said, but a Filipina who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 28, 2015
Executions imminent, Indonesia informs Australia
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had received a letter from her Indonesian counterpart late on Monday advising her of the imminent execution of two Australian drug traffickers and offering no hope of a reprieve.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2015
Abbott strikes conciliatory note with Widodo over Indonesia executions
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott struck a conciliatory tone on Thursday after speaking with Indonesian President Joko Widodo about the looming execution of two convicted Australian drug traffickers.
WORLD
Feb 6, 2015
U.S. official: 'No coincidence' Islamic State victims videotaped in Guantanamo-like jumpsuits
A top U.S. defense official said it was "no coincidence" that recent Islamic State videotapes of the savage executions of Jordanian and Japanese hostages showed the victims wearing orange jumpsuits, "believed by many to be the symbol of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay."
WORLD
Oct 31, 2014
Islamic State fighters vow safe passage, then execute 220 Iraqis from opposing Sunni tribe
Islamic State militants executed at least 220 Iraqis in retaliation against a tribe's opposition to their takeover of territory west of Baghdad, security sources and witnesses said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 26, 2014
Leader says Boko Haram is ruling Nigerian town by Islamic law
The leader of Nigeria's Islamist group Boko Haram said his fighters were now ruling the captured northeastern town of Gwoza "by Islamic law" in the first video to state a territorial claim in more than five years of violent insurrection.
EDITORIALS
Mar 21, 2014
Lay judges' moral dilemma
How does Japan's justice minister respond to a petition from 20 citizens who, as lay judges, agonized over the possibility of having to hand down a death sentence? They call for an immediate halt to capital punishment.
WORLD / Society
Jul 18, 2013
Review turns up FBI errors in 27 death penalty convictions
An unprecedented federal review of old criminal cases uncovers as many as 27 death penalty convictions in which FBI forensic experts may have mistakenly linked defendants to crimes with exaggerated scientific testimony.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
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