Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

The archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Isao Kikuchi, is renewing calls for abolition of the death penalty in Japan and for clemency for two men, one convicted of murder and already sentenced to death, the ...

OSAKA—The Osaka District Court on April 15 dismissed a lawsuit claiming that notifying a death-row inmate hours before ...

The death penalty, Japan's ultimate punishment, has been carried out in the country for the first time in two years and 11 months. It is essential to pause and thoroughly reconsider whether this ...

Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal last ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --A Japanese court on Tuesday gave the death penalty to a 34-year-old man who killed four people, including two police officers. Masanori Aoki was sentenced to death for fatally stabbing ...

Japan hanged two men convicted of murder on Thursday, the justice minister said, bringing the number of executions this year to 15 -- tied for the highest amount on record. With more than 100 inmates ...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - Japan is set to open an execution chamber to the media for the first time, after the justice minister attended the hangings of two inmates in July and called for more debate on ...