Capital Punishment in Japan (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) - Hardcover

Schmidt, Petra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004124217 ISBN 13: 9789004124219

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Capital punishment has been carried out in Japan since ancient times. Although ancient Japan uniquely suspended executions for several centuries towards the end of the first millennium, today the death penalty is firmly established in Japan.
This volume explores the current state of capital punishment, the domestic discussion on the subject, and the influence of the political orientations of the governments of recent years.
The treatise is of current interest especially because of the Aum cult, whose leader Shoko Asahara is at present tried in Tokyo. If found guilty, he may be sentenced to death. After a three years' interval (between 1989 and 1993), Japan is nowadays undergoing a capital punishment "renaissance" with 39 executions between 1993 and 2000.

About this title

About the Author:

Petra Schmidt, Ph.D. (1995) in Law, Japanese Studies, Chinese Studies, Hamburg University, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Sydney. She has published extensively on Japanese law including Die Entwicklung des japanischen Erbrechts (Carl Heymanns, 1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004124217
• ISBN 13: 9789004124219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216