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  2. Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan - Wikipedia

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    Execution by hanging [citation needed] Sawing [3] Waist-cutting (cutting the person in half). [citation needed] The Kanazawa han coupled this with decapitation [citation needed]. The death penalty often carried collateral punishments. [citation needed] One was parading the criminal around town prior to execution(市中引き回し).

  3. Ishikozume - Wikipedia

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    Earhart referred to a Japanese scholar named Ainosuke Fujiwara, who, as early as 1943, went as far as to say that ishikozume should be viewed not as a method of execution, but rather burial. In the end, however, Earhart wrote that the practice's true meaning and nature can never be known for sure, but that he himself speculated that it served ...

  4. Capital punishment in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Until the 1970s, execution dates in Japan were announced to the condemned before the execution; however, cases of death row suicides before execution led to a change, with communication coming to 1-2 hours before execution. [24] [verification needed] [better source needed] From about 1998 until 2007, Japan's Ministry of Justice only released ...

  5. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [5] Molten metal. Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were supposedly killed this way. The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [6] Brazen ...

  6. List of executions in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Executions in Japan are carried out by hanging, and the country has seven execution chambers, all located in major cities. ... The number of people executed in Japan ...

  7. Seppuku - Wikipedia

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    Hara-kiri is a Japanese reading or Kun-yomi of the characters; as it became customary to prefer Chinese readings in official announcements, only the term seppuku was ever used in writing. So hara-kiri is a spoken term, but only to commoners and seppuku a written term, but spoken amongst higher classes for the same act.

  8. Ikido - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of ikido. Ikido (生き胴) is a Japanese execution method.. Ikido translates to "living torso". [1] Ikido was invented during the Edo period and was used as a form of tameshigiri (test cutting) on living people and dead people.

  9. Suzugamori execution grounds - Wikipedia

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    An 1893 illustration showing an execution at Suzugamori. The Suzugamori execution grounds (鈴ヶ森刑場, Suzugamori keijō) were one of many sites in the vicinity of Edo (the forerunner of present-day Tokyo, Japan) where the Tokugawa shogunate executed criminals, anti-government conspirators and Christians in the Edo period.