Wow. I often humorously (at least attempt to be humorous) say, "We aren't afraid enough of the Japanese" with some creepy Japanese video. I think I first heard it from Den Beste.
I don't know how afraid we should be of them, but we surely don't understand them.
If someone had asked me, I would have guessed Japan didn't have the death penalty.
Boy would I have been wrong. They have one and it's about brutal and sadistic. I mean, unbelievably cruel, brutal and sadistic. "These guys would love to be waterboarded 7 times a week" cruel, brutal and sadistic.
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The inmates largely live in solitary confinement, isolated from the outside world. They are allowed two half-hour exercise sessions a week in summer, three in winter. For the rest they are not even allowed to move around in their cells, and are forced to stay sitting down. They are not permitted to watch television or have contact with other prisoners. Visits are infrequent and may be as short as five minutes.

In his book Papillon, he talks about solitary confinement. He says it's horrible and brutal, and he kept himself from dying or going crazy by walking constantly. Back and forth in his cell all day long for however many years he was in that time.
These guys don't get that. And they sit there for decades, Papillon did no more than 3 years in solitary at a stretch (as I recall).
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One case documented in the report is of a prisoner who was convicted first in 1968 and since that time has been undergoing trials, appeals, and finally his period on death row without ever having a date set.”

And while that's torture enough, it's not the worst part. "What could be worse than that?" you ask (you sure ask a lot of questions)
Even the prisoners themselves don’t know when they’re going to be executed.”
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The policy is to inform prisoners of their execution only on the day they are going to be hanged.

Holy shit! Think of that, all of these poor bastards sitting in their cells for years and every freaking day wondering if tomorrow morning they would come in and tell them today's the day.
They sit in their cells for 167 out of 168 hours a week thinking about that.
How much can you sleep when you can't do anything? So these poor bastards sit there probably 18 hours/day just thinking about whether or not they die tomorrow.

Someone should tell them to say they're terrorists, maybe they could get transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

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