On 18 January 2024, Yuki Endo was sentenced to death by the Kofu District Court for murdering the parents of his love interest and setting fire to their home in Yamanashi prefecture on 12 October 2021, thus becoming the most recent case of a minor facing the death penalty in Japan.

4 days ago · A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

Dec 21, 2021 · TOKYO (AP) — Japan hanged three death-row inmates on Tuesday, its first executions in two years, amid growing criticism by human rights groups of the country’s use of the death penalty.

Mar 12, 2025 · Two years ago, a court in a Tokyo suburb sentenced a 26-year-old man to 17 years in prison for the stabbing death of a 33-year-old influencer who had just broken off a relationship with him.

4 days ago · Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ($1.44m). The legal team for Iwao Hakamada, released last year after his ...

Dec 29, 2023 · Japan carried out no executions in 2023 for the first time in three years. Currently, there are 106 people on death row in Japan. Three of the inmates died and three death sentences were...

4 days ago · A Japanese man who spent nearly 50 years on death row before he was acquitted of murder will be compensated 217 million yen ($1.45m), in what his lawyers say is the country's largest-ever payout ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Two and a half years have passed since Japan last carried out the death penalty. The most recent case was the execution of Katō Tomohiro on July 26, 2022, for a 2008 stabbing spree that left 7...

Jan 5, 2024 · The coun­try cur­rent­ly has 106 peo­ple on death row; three pris­on­ers died on death row in 2023. Japan’s last exe­cu­tion took place on July 26 , 2022 , when Tomohiro Kato was hanged for killing sev­en peo­ple in a 2008 attack in Tokyo.

Aug 11, 2024 · Japan has not executed anyone for more than two years, apparently reflecting its recent cautious stance after previously hanging death row inmates every few months under the government led by the Liberal Democratic Party.