Japan
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- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary government
- CONSTITUTION
- May 3, 1947
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on the German model with Anglo-American influences; review of legislative acts by the Supreme Court
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- bicameral, House of Councillors (Sangi-in) and House of Representatives (Shugi-in)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (president appointed by the King on the recommendation of the Government, others appointed by the Government)
RELIGIONS
majority of Buddhists and Shintoists; minorities of Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox
From the country
- JUNE 19, 2007ChinaDEATH PENALTY
EX-STUDENT'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING COUPLE UPHELD
the Supreme Court in Japan upheld a lower court decision sentencing a former Chinese graduate student to death for killing a compatriot student and her Chinese husband in 2000 after his overtures to her were rejected
- JUNE 1, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN DEATH PENALTY FINALIZED FOR MAN WHO MURDERED PAIR OF SISTERS
the death sentence of a 23-year-old man who killed two sisters in Osaka, Japan, in 2005 was finalized after he withdrew his appeal, his lawyers said.
- MAY 22, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. DEATH FOR MAN WHO BURIED VICTIMS ALIVE
a japanese man was sentenced to death for bashing two men then burying them alive.
- MAY 21, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN 1 GETS DEATH PENALTY OVER FRAUD-RING MURDERS
the Chiba District Court sentenced a man to death and two others to life imprisonment over the deaths of four people in 2004 following infighting in a billing fraud ring...
- MAY 7, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN MAN APPEALS DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERING 2 WOMEN IN IWATE
defence lawyers for Kazuyuki Wakabayashi, 30, have appealed his death sentence to the Sendai High Court in Japan.
- APRIL 27, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN. 3 DEATH ROW INMATES EXECUTED
Three death row inmates were executed at detention centers in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.
- APRIL 26, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN EX-GANGSTER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING 2 IN SAITAMA IN 2003
the Saitama District Court in Japan sentenced Hidenori Ogata, a 29 year old former gangster, to death for murdering two people and seriously injuring two others in Saitama Prefecture.
- APRIL 25, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING RESTAURANT OWNER, SHOOTING RAILWAY WORKER
an appeal court in Japan sentenced a unemployed man to death for murder and robbery.
- APRIL 24, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN ROBBERY-MURDER GETS DEATH PENALTY
Presiding Judge Shinji Sugiyama of the Morioka District Court in Japan sentenced Kazuyuki Wakabayashi, 30, to death for killing two women in Hirono, Iwate Prefecture, last July 19.
- APRIL 19, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
TOKYO: DEATH SENTENCE APPEAL FAILS
the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Hiroshi Zoda...
- APRIL 13, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN DEATH SENTENCE FINAL IN TAKEFUJI CASE
the Japanese Supreme Court finalised the death sentence it upheld last month against Mitsuhiro Kobayashi,
- APRIL 10, 2007JapanDEATH PENALTY
JAPAN MAN GIVEN DEATH FOR MURDER-ROBBERY DURING PAROLE
the Japanese Supreme Court upheld the death sentence handed to Shozo Nishiyama, 54, for killing a woman in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture, in 1992 while he was on parole from a life sentence for murder and robbery.