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EU urges Japan to suspend death penalty after execution | The Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch
After Japan’s first execution of a prisoner in almost three years, the European Union and other countries responded with a joint statement expressing regret and calling for the death penalty to be suspended.
From the outside, the Tokyo detention center looks much like the other tall, plain buildings that line the city of Katsushika, but its grim facade and tree-lined grounds hide a much grimmer reality. It is here that Japan's most notorious criminals are taken from their cells and hanged, under fluorescent lights in a cold, bare wood-paneled room. There is an element of theatricality to the way convicts are executed in the East Asian country - the …
Last Friday, June 27, 2025, Takahiro Shiraishi, a 34-year-old man who was known as the “Twitter killer” finally faced the death penalty to which he was sentenced. Japan’s government carried out the sentence through hanging, a measure that had not been taken since 2022. The subject would have been the author of the death of nine people, of which eight were women and one man. Not only did he end his life, because according to the reports, he also …
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