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On April 14, 1988, the youngest, Child E, was assaulted by friends of Child A (known only as Friend A and Friend B), and died as a result. On July 17 of the same year, acting on a tip from the landlord, Sugamo officials entered the apartment and discovered the severely malnourished Child A (then 14), Child B (seven), and Child D (three).
If the baby was born alive and: (a) was killed soon after birth, then abandoned, it is considered homicide; (b) if the baby is killed several days after birth, it is considered homicide and neglect; and (c) if the baby is found alive, but abandoned in the coin-operated-locker, it is considered severe neglect. [1]
Capital punishment is a legal penalty for murder in Japan, and is applied in cases of multiple murder or aggravated single murder. Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities.
Japan has a 99% conviction rate, and a system of so-called "hostage justice" which, according to Kanae Doi, Japan director at Human Rights Watch, "denies people arrested their rights to a ...
In 2019, a 51-year-old attacker in Kawasaki stabbed and killed two people, including a schoolgirl, and injured over a dozen others in a rampage targeting children waiting for a bus. He later ...
Japan is the only G7 country where suicide is the leading cause of death for teenagers and records more suicides by minors on 1 September than on any other day in the calendar year. At least 513 ...
In the past, Inuit killed infants with known congenital anomalies and often one of a set of twins. [31] Similarly, Mohave Indians had killed all children of racially mixed ancestry at birth. [32] In their 1981 paper, Sakuta and Saito [33] reviewed infanticide in Japan and describe the two distinct types of infanticide commonly seen. The Mabiki ...
During the trial, Chizuko Okamoto insisted on her innocence and claimed that Minehiro had killed Rikako. Despite a lack of admissible physical evidence and witnesses, Okamoto was convicted. On July 23, 2007, the Yokohama District Court sentenced her to 12 years in prison for the murder of her daughter. [5] Chizuko Okamoto appealed the guilty ...