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AX 11: Kalafina interview, speaks about new album
The gothic lolita-style vocalist trio, Kalafina, returned to the USA for Anime Expo 2011. We were able to catch up to them and discuss how things have been since we last spoke in 2009. This is their first time in Los Angeles, too, so we’re sure to check in with them about that. For the [...]
Continue reading...Execution chamber at Tokyo Detention House opened to media
Friday, August 27, 2010
The Justice Ministry opened the execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention House to the media Friday, allowing reporters to take still and moving images for the first time, under the instruction of Justice Minister Keiko Chiba. During the 30-minute visit, reporters stepped into the five rooms of the chamber, such as the execution room equipped [...]
Continue reading...Japan execution chamber opening could spark debate
Monday, August 23, 2010
Japanese Justice Minister Keiko Chiba’s decision to allow the media a rare look at an execution chamber this month could spark public debate in a country where a hefty majority supports retaining the death penalty. Chiba, who used to be a member of a lawmakers’ group opposing capital punishment, had not signed off any executions [...]
Continue reading...Over 75% back death penalty: poll
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
A Kyodo News poll shows that 75.9 percent of the public supports the death penalty, far exceeding the 19.5 percent who oppose capital punishment. The poll was conducted after Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, a former member of a group of lawmakers opposed to the death penalty, ordered the hanging of two inmates in July, the [...]
Continue reading...Tokyo death chamber to be opened to media
Saturday, July 31, 2010
The Justice Ministry will open the execution chamber at the Tokyo Detention House to the media as early as August, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba said Friday. Secretive practices surrounding the capital punishment system, including executions without prior notice to death-row inmates, their relatives and lawyers, have drawn criticism. Execution chambers have been closed to the [...]
Continue reading...Japan hangs 2 death row inmates, 1st execution in 1 year
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Japan hanged two death row inmates in the first execution under the Democratic Party of Japan government launched last September, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba told a press conference Wednesday. The two are Kazuo Shinozawa, who was accused of murder in 2000 involving six female clerks at a jewelry store in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, and Hidenori [...]
Continue reading...Japanese band – Kalafina
Monday, July 19, 2010
Kalafina is a Japanese band formed by composer Yuki Kajiura in 2007, mainly to perform theme songs for the anime Kara no Kyōkai. The band debuted in January 2008 with two original members from Yuki Kajiura’s FictionJunction project, Wakana Ōtaki and Keiko Kubota (not confirmed until the first Dream Port 2008 concert held on April [...]
Continue reading...No executions carried out under Chiba’s watch
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
During the six months since she took office, Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, a former member of the federation of Diet members promoting abolition of the death penalty, has ordered no executions. The last execution was carried out in July under former Justice Minister Eisuke Mori. The country currently has a total of 109 death-row prisoners. [...]
Continue reading...Japan urged to settle international child custody issue
Friday, October 16, 2009
Eight countries on Friday called on Tokyo to allow divorced foreign parents access to their children living in Japan and to sign a treaty against international parental child abductions. Justice Minister Keiko Chiba of Japan’s month-old centre-left government met envoys from Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and the United States to discuss [...]
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