BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Four prisoners executed in Japan

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Four prisoners executed in Japan

Four prisoners on death row in Japan have been hanged, the country's justice ministry has said. T...概要を表示 Four prisoners on death row in Japan have been hanged, the country's justice ministry has said. They are the country's first executions under Japan's new Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Japan, like the United States, is one of the world's few developed countries to exercise capital punishment. It has been reported that those hanged included a taxi driver convicted of four murders. The last hanging in