Do you know Japanese people celebrate Christmas day? It is a strange phenominon. Most of us are not Christians. We might be Buddists. But I think it is better to articulate that most of Japanese are atheists. We still maintain the death penalty system. I think we should abolish the burutal. Chiristmas season is the season of death penalty in Japan. The justice ministry wants to hang the inmates every year. This season is the last chance for them to kill. And almost nobody cares what is going on the jail because they are busy with buying christmas presents, preparing for New year. However I guess all of the death-row inmates are afraid of they can not survive untill New year. Despair. I always feel weird when I got a message "A Merry Christmas" from Japanese friends. To be honest, I want to destroy the Christmas day of Japan and the death penalty system as well. What do you think?
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061225p2a00m0na012000c.html
Japan hangs four prisoners on Christmas day
Four death-row inmates were hanged on Monday, the first executions in 15 months in Japan, informed sources said.
The Justice Ministry announced the number of those executed but failed to publish their names.
Former Justice Minister Seiken Sugiura refused to sign any execution orders, but incumbent Justice Minister Jinen Nagase ordered the execution of four death row inmates three months after he took office.
Those executed were Hiroaki Hidaka, 44, a former taxi driver convicted of murder and robbery; Yoshimitsu Akiyama, 77, also convicted of murder and robbery; Yoshio Fujinami, 75, convicted of murder and robbery; and Michio Fukuoka, 64, convicted of murder.
The fact that the executions were carried out in the last week of 2006 -- making it the 14th straight year death-row inmates have been killed by the state -- shows that the Justice Ministry apparently wants to maintain the execution system in Japan, observers say.
Sugiura's predecessor, Justice Minister Megumu Sato also refused to sign execution orders from December 1990 to November 1991. Both Sugiura and Sato reportedly did so based on their religious beliefs, as Buddhists. (Mainichi)
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December 25, 2006
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