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'No Warning': The Death Penalty In Japan
Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation.
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Over 200 Killed In Devastating Japan Earthquake, 100 Still Missing
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that flattened parts of central Japan on January 1 passed 200 on Tuesday, with just over 100 still unaccounted for, authorities said.
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Japan Delivers Death Sentence To 3, Marking First Executions Under New PM
Japan on Tuesday executed three prisoners on death row, the first since December 2019, local media reported citing unnamed sources including from the justice ministry.
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So Many Japanese People Die Alone, There's An Industry Devoted To Cleaning Up After Them
There was a putrid smell emanating from the apartment. There was an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body had been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs were covered with maggots and flies.
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Japan Executes 2 Death Row Inmates: Report
Japan on Friday executed two death row prisoners, local media reported, as the government -- backed by public opinion -- continued to ignore calls by international rights groups to end capital punishment.
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In Rapidly Aging Japan, Dying Is Big Business
In a country with many more deaths than births each year, Japanese companies are looking to maximize the amount of money people spend on shuffling off their mortal coil, from preparing "ending notes" and choosing coffins to arranging to have their ashes blasted into space or turned into diamonds.
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5,000 cut off in landslide as Japan faces more floods
More than 5,000 people were cut off by landslides on Sunday as more heavy rain and floods were forecast in southwestern Japan, where the death toll from torrential downpours rose to 22.
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Death toll from Japan quake, tsunami tops 10,000
The official death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami passed the 10,000 mark Friday and was still climbing two weeks after the magnitude-9 quake struck off the northeastern coast and unleashed a cascade of disasters.Hundreds of thousands of survivors are still camped out in temporary shelters. Some 660,000 households do not have w...
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School gymnasium till Friday, now a morgue
Temporary morgues have been set up in the wrecked remains of public buildings in tsunami-devastated Japan's northeast as rescue workers continued a search for survivors on Wednesday.In the town of Higashi Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, where the tsunami struck hard, a school gymnasium has become a temporary resting place for the dead.Desperate su...
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'No Warning': The Death Penalty In Japan
Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation.
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Over 200 Killed In Devastating Japan Earthquake, 100 Still Missing
The death toll from the powerful earthquake that flattened parts of central Japan on January 1 passed 200 on Tuesday, with just over 100 still unaccounted for, authorities said.
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Japan Delivers Death Sentence To 3, Marking First Executions Under New PM
Japan on Tuesday executed three prisoners on death row, the first since December 2019, local media reported citing unnamed sources including from the justice ministry.
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So Many Japanese People Die Alone, There's An Industry Devoted To Cleaning Up After Them
There was a putrid smell emanating from the apartment. There was an obvious brown stain on the futon where the body had been. The futon, the clothes, the newspapers and horse-racing stubs were covered with maggots and flies.
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Japan Executes 2 Death Row Inmates: Report
Japan on Friday executed two death row prisoners, local media reported, as the government -- backed by public opinion -- continued to ignore calls by international rights groups to end capital punishment.
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In Rapidly Aging Japan, Dying Is Big Business
In a country with many more deaths than births each year, Japanese companies are looking to maximize the amount of money people spend on shuffling off their mortal coil, from preparing "ending notes" and choosing coffins to arranging to have their ashes blasted into space or turned into diamonds.
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5,000 cut off in landslide as Japan faces more floods
More than 5,000 people were cut off by landslides on Sunday as more heavy rain and floods were forecast in southwestern Japan, where the death toll from torrential downpours rose to 22.
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Death toll from Japan quake, tsunami tops 10,000
The official death toll from Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami passed the 10,000 mark Friday and was still climbing two weeks after the magnitude-9 quake struck off the northeastern coast and unleashed a cascade of disasters.Hundreds of thousands of survivors are still camped out in temporary shelters. Some 660,000 households do not have w...
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School gymnasium till Friday, now a morgue
Temporary morgues have been set up in the wrecked remains of public buildings in tsunami-devastated Japan's northeast as rescue workers continued a search for survivors on Wednesday.In the town of Higashi Matsushima in Miyagi prefecture, where the tsunami struck hard, a school gymnasium has become a temporary resting place for the dead.Desperate su...
