Japanese death row inmates are imprisoned inside the detention centers of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sendai, Fukuoka, Hiroshima and Sapporo.

Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities. After a four-year moratorium, executions resumed in 1993 and up to 15 have taken place almost each year since then.

The country of Japan had 107 people on death row as of December 21, 2021. [1] Perpetrator of the Kyoto Animation arson attack, where 36 people died. Aoba committed the arson due to the belief that the animation studio had plagiarized his work. Accomplice was …

As of August 2010, 107 people were on death row in Japan. From 2000 to 2009, Japan sentenced 112 people to death and executed 46. As of early 2008 there were 104 people on death row, compared to 78 people 2005 and 56 in 2003. In 2010, 14 people were sentenced to death, the lowest total in 11 years. Three were sentenced by lay judges.

Jan 5, 2024 · Japanese law requires that the Justice Minister sched­ule an exe­cu­tion with­in six months of when a death sen­tence is final­ized, but in prac­tice, pris­on­ers spend an aver­age of about 15 years on death row while their sen­tences are reviewed.

Dec 21, 2021 · TOKYO (AP) — Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country’s use of the death penalty.

Oct 22, 2024 · Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda, left, offers an apology to former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, center, and his sister Hideko, right, for his decades-long suffering, at Hakamada’s home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

4 days ago · The government survey on Japan’s death penalty system found that 83.1 percent of Japanese favor it, up by 2.3 percentage points from the last survey five years ago.

Jun 1, 2014 · Japan currently has 130 prisoners awaiting the Minister of Justice's signoff for their execution. They are incarcerated at seven prisons: Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka, with about half the total in Tokyo's Kosuge Prison.

Aug 1, 2005 · As far as the Japanese government is concerned, death row is exactly where Hakamada belongs. A court found him guilty of stabbing to death four people — a father, a mother, and their two children — robbing them, and setting their house on fire.