By HIROYOSHI ITABASHI/ Staff Writer
January 19, 2020 at 16:45 JST
Justice Minister Masako Mori announces the execution of a death-row inmate in December. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Although the global trend is toward abolishing capital punishment, the ratio of Japanese who find the death penalty “unavoidable” remains high, edging up to 80.8 percent in the latest survey. [Read More]
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A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
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