Japan on Friday carried out its first execution under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government, hanging a man convicted of killing five people in an arson attack at a pachinko parlour in Osaka in ...

There are only two first world democracies using the Death Penalty, Japan and the United States, but how each goes about their executions is vastly different, and prisoners waiting on death row have a ...

TOKYO, Japan, Sep 8 2026 (IPS) - A symposium examining Japan’s death penalty through the lens of human dignity was held on September 5 at Joseph Hall of St. Ignatius Church in Yotsuya, Tokyo. Titled ...