Japan

Japan (55)

Mar 21 2017 12:19pm

Urgent Action good news: Okinawa activist released on bail after five months

Feb 28 2017 3:36pm

Urgent Action update: Okinawa activist continues to be denied bail in Japan

Jan 30 2017 12:08pm

Urgent Action: Prominent peace activist detained without bail in Japan

Sep 27 2016 3:01pm

Urgent Action: Thirteen men at risk of Execution in Japan

Sep 19 2016 12:01pm

Urgent Action: Thirteen men at risk of execution in Japan

Feb 3 2016 8:00am

Making a Murderer and Matsumoto Kenji: The truth can be stranger than fiction

Does this set of circumstances sound familiar? A man from a poor...

Jun 25 2015 12:06pm

Japan carries out first execution of year

‘To take a man’s life in this way is the politics of the gutter’ - ...

Jun 17 2015 1:14pm

After four decades on Japan's death row, Okunishi should be retried, not hanged

Okunishi Masaru is Japan’s longest serving death row inmate. This wee...

Aug 29 2014 12:42pm

Japan: Hanging of two men this morning 'dismal news'

The execution of two men in Japan this morning is dismal news and part...

Jun 26 2014 7:36am

Japan: 'deplorable' secret execution of death row prisoner this morning condemned

In Japan death row inmates 'live under the constant fear of executi...