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 abolition of capital punishment. "It is shameful that the death penalty exists in Japan. I think state power should not be exercised to execute people," said Kamei.