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28 Dec 2018, 10:36 am
All executions are done by hanging.Japan's Code of Criminal Procedure states the death penalty should be implemented within six months of the issuing of the sentence, but in fact that is almost never the case.The controversial system made international headlines in July when 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which carried out the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, were executed.A total of 36 prisoners have now been executed since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe… [read post]
11 Dec 2011, 3:32 am by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
To finish, Prime Minister Noda says that Japan will continue best efforts to deal with climate change. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 6:43 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
But this sounds much better than what former prime minister Kan had to say about nuclear power. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 10:32 am
The New York Times reports today in Abe Rejects Japan's Files on War Sex:Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denied Thursday that Japan's military had forced foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II, contradicting the Japanese government's longtime official position.... [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 4:00 am by Paul Caron
, 74 Tax Notes Int'l 788 (June 2, 2014): Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's second term began in December 2012. [read post]
7 May 2012, 11:52 am
Last week, President Obama met with Japanese Prime Minister Noda and announced that they have agreed to "a new joint vision to guide our alliance," which includes strengthening energy cooperation and discussions on expanding LNG exports from the United States to Japan. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 4:52 am
Err, take it away, USTR Kirk: The United States welcomes Prime Minister Noda’s important announcement expressing Japan’s intention to begin consultations with Trans-Pacific Partnership countries towards joining the TPP negotiations.... [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 3:30 am
" The absence of an ICC-like permanent tribunal in the postwar era, she argues, created the "historical vacuum" within which Prime Minister Shinzo Abe now denies the tragedy. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 9:00 am by Sean Mirski
This reinterpretation represents a dramatic shift away from Japan’s postwar pacifism, and suggests that Prime Minister Abe seeks to make the U.S. [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 9:16 am by Matthew Borges
The deal was signed by US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the UN General Assembly in New York and is scheduled to take effect in January. [read post]
13 May 2012, 1:35 am by Sean Hayes
Korea’s Yonhap News has reported, in part, that: During annual summit talks in Beijing, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda also agreed to start preparations to launch official negotiations on a three-way free trade agreement by the end of the year. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 2:30 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
Prime Minister Kan “pledged to reduce dependence on nuclear power” (Japan Times). [read post]
6 Sep 2011, 11:40 am by Mary Whisner
Japan’s Constitution also guarantees Japan’s peaceful roles in world affairs and democracy.The Japanese prime minister's website includes the constitution in English. [read post]
25 Mar 2005, 12:11 pm
[JURIST] In Friday's international brief, Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro [official profile] told a press conference Thursday that despite a harshly worded 'letter to the people' [official text] released by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun [official profile] Wednesday, Japan would not respond aggressively to the current dispute over the ownership of the Dokdo/Takeshima islets; Chief [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 7:22 am
"What ISIS wanted to do and did was behead him — on camera, with a message to Japan (Abe =  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe):"Abe, because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found... [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 5:36 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
The nice thing about the recent anti-nuclear position of Prime Minister Kan is that he is really extremely unpopular in Japan right now. [read post]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled on Thursday an international framework for the regulation and use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) during a meeting at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 8:11 pm
Source: The Guardian (18 December 2015)http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/18/japan-executes-first-man-convicted-by-citizen-judgesJapan on Friday carried out the first execution of a man who had been convicted by lay judges, as part of a pair of hangings that were condemned by human rights groups.The two executions bring to 14 the total number of death sentences carried out since Shinzo Abe became prime minister three years ago.Japanese media quoted a justice… [read post]
17 Jul 2018, 12:22 pm by Erin McCarthy Holliday
Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, and Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, said in a joint statement [press release, PDF]: In giving full effect to this agreement, the EU and Japan are sending a powerful message to promote free, fair and rules-based trade, and against protectionism. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 6:39 pm by Karl-Friedrich Lenz
What exactly makes the Hamaoka plant Prime Minister Kan stopped by a procedure bypassing relevant laws so special? [read post]