Japan

Current Death Penalty Status: Retentionist

Method of execution: Hanging

	Reported Executions	Reported Death Sentences
2013	5*	+
2012	7	3
2011	0	10
2010	2	14
2009	7	34
2008	15	27
2007	9	23
2006	4	44

*As of 25 June 2013
ADPAN Members in Japan:

• Center for Prisoners Rights
• Forum 90
• AI Japan

Note:

For the 1^st time in 19 years, there were no executions in Japan in 2011.

Names of those executed in 2013:

• Tokuhisa Kumagai (September) for murder
• Yoshihide Miyagi (April) for murder
• Katsuji Hamasaki (April) for murder
• Kaoru Kobayashi (February) for murder
• Masahiro Kanagawa (February) for murder
• Keiki Muto (February) for murder