University of Hawaii Professor David Johnson's excellent paper on the death penalty in Japan:
"Japan's Secretive Death Penalty."
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Former Justice Minister Jinen Nagase:
"Executions create order in society." [ More ]
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Masaharu Harada
whose younger brother was murdered in 1983.
"The execution didn't help ease the pain of our family," [ More ]
"Closure rather than revenge: Murder Victims families group "Ocean." [ More ]
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Bereaved parents of school massacre
Parents of the eight children slain in
the June 2001 Osaka school massacre express
mixed
feelings regarding the
execution of Mamoru Takuma. [ More ]
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Shizuka
Kamei
Former
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief
"Not everyone who is sentenced to death is guilty."
[ More ]
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Nobuto
Hosaka, Diet
Member and secretary general of a nonpartisan lawmaker
group: "We have urged the Justice Ministry many times to
halt executions and raised the issue 15 times in the Diet,
but nothing has changed,"