Japan 2003
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News on Japan in 2003
- MARCH 27, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Relatives of victims of gas attacks carried out by...
Relatives of victims of gas attacks carried out by Japan's Aum Supreme Truth cult vented their anger at the trial of cult guru Shoko Asahara and demanded the death sentence for him
- MARCH 12, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagoya High Court in Japan upheld a lower court...
The Nagoya High Court in Japan upheld a lower court ruling that sentenced two men to death for murdering two women by burning them alive inside oil barrels
- MARCH 10, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
A convict on death row, who is asserting his innocence...
A convict on death row, who is asserting his innocence and seeking a retrial, met his lawyers for the first time in nearly 12 years at the Tokyo detention house
- FEBRUARY 24, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Utsunomiya District Court in Japan sentenced former...
The Utsunomiya District Court in Japan sentenced former senior crime syndicate member Ryoji Goto, 44, to death for killing a woman in Utsunomiya by injecting her with narcotics and for murdering a man by throwing him into a river in Mito
- FEBRUARY 12, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, 44, was sentenced to death by...
Mitsuhiro Kobayashi, 44, was sentenced to death by the Aomori District Court for setting fire to a branch office of Takefuji, a major consumer credit firm, which killed five staff members during an attempted robbery in May 2001
- FEBRUARY 7, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
A Tokyo District Court ruled that the Tokyo Detention...
A Tokyo District Court ruled that the Tokyo Detention House must allow Toshiaki Masunaga, 54, a death-row inmate, to purchase a book even though he had exceeded his allowed limit of possessions
- FEBRUARY 4, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
Shizuka Kamei, head of the Diet Members' League for...
Shizuka Kamei, head of the Diet Members' League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty, said he would submit to the current Diet session a bill calling for the introduction of life imprisonment without parole, adding that it would be a milestone in the ab
- JANUARY 31, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a woman and her...
The Nagasaki District Court sentenced a woman and her lover to death for killing her husband and son in 1992 and 1998 in order to obtain life insurance money
- JANUARY 24, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The Miyazaki District Court in southern Japan sentenced...
The Miyazaki District Court in southern Japan sentenced to death Yasutoshi Matsuda, 34
- JANUARY 1, 2003JapanDEATH PENALTY
The death penalty is provided for by the Criminal Procedure...
The death penalty is provided for by the Criminal Procedure Law and by the Penal Code for a number of offenses (13) but, in practice, it is applied only for murder