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Offers a systematic study of the de facto moratorium periods in Japan’s capital punishment policy
Proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy.
Investigates the social and political background of the case study period comprehensively in order to gain better understanding of how the Ministry of Justice had been justifying the capital punishment system, citing domestic factors.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan’s capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de facto moratorium periods in Japan’s death penalty system and proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy. Addressing how the Ministry of Justice in Japan justified capital punishment policy during the de facto moratorium periods from 1989 to 1993, from 2009 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2012, the author debates the misconceptions surrounding the significance of these moratoriums.
The book evidences the approach, rationale and evolution of Japan’s Ministry of Justice in consistently justifying capital punishment policy during the different execution-free periods and provides a better understanding of the powerful unelected elite who actually drive the capital punishment system in Japan. Based on parliamentary proceedings, public opinion surveys and periodical reports by both international and domestic human rights NGOs as well as interviews of government ministers, NGO staff, pro- and anti-death-penalty advocates, this text is key reading for those interested in Japan, its government, criminal justice system and policies on the death penalty and human rights.
Keywords
- capital punishment system in Japan
- de facto Moratorium Periods of the death penalty
- policies on the death penalty and human rights.
- Governmental Justification for Capital Punishment in Japan
- Japan's criminal justice system
- miscarriage of justice
- wrongful conviction and Japan's crimical justice system
Authors and Affiliations
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International Christian University, The Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Mika Obara-Minnitt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Japanese Moratorium on the Death Penalty
Authors: Mika Obara-Minnitt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55822-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56530-3Published: 10 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-72008-8Published: 28 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55822-0Published: 10 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 272
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Asian Politics, History of Japan