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The death penalty in Japan.A very short bibliography.
November 30, 2009
Suggestions welcomed
Amnesty International
ASA 22/005/2009 Japan: Hanging by a thread: Mental health and the death penalty in Japan
ASA 22/006/2006 Japan: “Will This Day Be My Last?” The Death Penalty In Japan
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA220062006?open&of=ENG-392
ACT 60/016/2005 Urgent Action in Focus: August 2005: Japan – a long way to go
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ACT60/016/2005
ASA 22/001/1997 Japan: The Death Penalty: Summary Of Concerns
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engASA220011997
ASA 22/03/1995 Japan: The Death Penalty: A Cruel, Inhuman and Arbitrary Punishment
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/type,COUNTRYREP,AMNESTY,JPN,3ae6a9dd4,0.html
AI Asia Pacific
http://asiapacific.amnesty.org/apro/aproweb.nsf/pages/index
Federation Internationale des Droit de l’Homme
FIDH 2008 Japon : La Loi du Silence
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/Japon505f_6.10.2008.pdf
Japan: The Law of Silence
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/japon505a2008.pdf
FIDH 2003 La Peine de Mort au Japon
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/jp359f.pdf
The Death Penalty in Japan
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/jp359a.pdf
Edition in Japanese language
http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/jp359j.pdf
Hidden death penalty in Japan
http://www.jca.apc.org/stop-shikei/epamph/dpinjapan_e.html
On Death Row in Japan By Charles Lane
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2931521.html
Dead Men Walking: Japan’s Death Penalty
http://japanfocus.org/_David_McNeill___C_M__Mason-Dead_Men_Walking__Japan_s_Death_Penalty
Why Japan Still Has the Death Penalty, By Charles Lane, WaPo January 16, 2005
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11306-2005Jan15.html
La peine de mort au Japon. 2° Congres Mondial contre la PdM, Montréal 2004
http://www.abolition.fr/Upload/documents//karimraissi.pdf
David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring
Death Penalty Lessons from Asia
http://www.japanfocus.org/-David_T_-Johnson/3228
David T. Johnson
Japan’s Secretive Death Penalty Policy.
http://www.hawaii.edu/aplpj/articles/APLPJ_07.2_johnson.pdf
Books of interest
David T. Johnson & Franklin E. Zimring
The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
New York. Oxford UP. 2009
Hood Roger & Hoyle Caroline
The Death Penalty. A Worldwide Perspective. Fourth Edition, Revised and Expanded.
New York. Oxford UP. 2008
In Italian
Amnesty International e Forum 90
La pena di morte: una realtà nascosta
http://www.santegidio.org/pdm/news2004/japan_bm.htm
The Yomiuri Shimbun, in 2008 and 2009, published many articles in English about the death penalty
(UNMASKING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT), but they are un-catchable.
Dott. Claudio Giusti
Via Don Minzoni 40, 47100 Forlì, Italia
Tel. 39/0543/401562 39/340/4872522
e-mail giusticlaudio@aliceposta.it
Member of the Scientific Committee of Osservatorio sulla Legalità e i Diritti, Claudio Giusti had the privilege and the honour to participate in the first congress of the Italian Section of Amnesty International: later he was one of the founders of the World Coalition Against The Death Penalty.
