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

This report covers the judicial use of the death penalty for the period January to December 2025. In 2025, Amnesty ...

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 ...

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 ...