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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 Governmental Justification of Capital Punishment -- 1.2 Research Background -- 1.3 Research Methodology -- 1.4 Outline -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The Two-Sided Triangle: Capital Punishment Policy Decision-Making- A Framework for Analysis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Existing Hypotheses on the Government's Retention of Capital Punishment -- 2.2.1 Historical Factors -- 2.2.2 External Factors -- 2.2.3 Internal Factors -- 2.3 Japanese Decision-Making: The Iron Triangle Model

Offering a timely reanalysis of the issue of Japan⁰́₉s capital punishment policy, this cutting edge volume considers the de facto moratorium periods in Japan⁰́₉s death penalty system and proposes an alternative analytical framework to examine the policy. Addressing how the Ministry of Justice in Japan justified capital punishment policy during the de facto moratorium periods from 1989 to 1993, from 2009 to 2010 and from 2010 to 2012, the author debates the misconceptions surrounding the significance of these moratoriums. The book evidences the approach, rationale and evolution of Japan⁰́₉s Ministry of Justice in consistently justifying capital punishment policy during the different execution-free periods and provides a better understanding of the powerful unelected elite who actually drive the capital punishment system in Japan. Based on parliamentary proceedings, public opinion surveys and periodical reports by both international and domestic human rights NGOs as well as interviews of government ministers, NGO staff, pro- and anti-death-penalty advocates, this text is key reading for those interested in Japan, its government, criminal justice system and policies on the death penalty and human rights.