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TOKYO: Japan’s new justice minister Hideki Makihara has said abolishing the death penalty would be “inappropriate” despite the recent acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner.Japan and the United States are the only two G7 countries that still use capital punishment, which has strong public support in Japan where scrapping it is rarely discussed.But the policy -- always carried out by hanging in Japan -- is also criticised for the “cruel” way it is carried out, with prisoners often informed of their impending death in the early morning just a few hours before it happens.“It would be inappropriate to abolish” the death penalty as “heinous crimes continue to occur”, Makihara

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