{"id":990,"date":"2009-09-10T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:05:44","slug":"will-the-new-japan-stop-barbaric-imprisonment-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/will-the-new-japan-stop-barbaric-imprisonment-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the new Japan stop barbaric imprisonment and death?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 100 people on death row in Japan.\u00a0 Many of them are elderly and have spent decades in near isolation.\u00a0 Conditions are primitive.<\/p>\n<p>The new government will be able to abolish the death penalty.\u00a0 Will Japanese people call for it?\u00a0 Will they allow it?<\/p>\n<p>It would be a healthy step towards cultural maturity if the death penalty is abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/pages\/deathpenalty-index-eng\">Abolish the death penalty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secure.amnesty.or.jp\/index_e.html\">AI Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8247319.stm\">Japan death row &#8216;breeds insanity&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 100 people on death row in Japan.\u00a0 Many of them are elderly and have spent decades in near isolation.\u00a0 Conditions are primitive. The new government will be able to abolish the death penalty.\u00a0 Will Japanese people call for it?\u00a0 Will they allow it? It would be a healthy step towards cultural maturity if &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/will-the-new-japan-stop-barbaric-imprisonment-and-death\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will the new Japan stop barbaric imprisonment and death?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-fY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}