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DEATH

BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 13, 2015
Equities said under threat as 'death cross' forms over Japan's REIT market
A "death cross" has formed over Japanese real estate investment trusts (REITs) for the first time in Shinzo Abe's 30-month prime ministership, fueling speculation a bear market is imminent and equities are about to get hit.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 25, 2015
Japan executes convict for murdering woman in Nagoya
A 44-year-old convicted murderer was executed by hanging on Thursday after six years on death row, the first execution authorized by Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa since she acceded to the post last October.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 17, 2015
Muslim Brotherhood's dream of an Islamist Egypt fades as Morsi is sentenced to death
After becoming Egypt's first freely elected president in 2012, Mohammed Morsi hoped his Islamist Muslim Brotherhood movement could emerge from decades of battle with the state and transform the country.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2015
Mass death sentences now a part of life in Egypt
With its mass death sentences, Egypt's military regime is joining the ranks of Adolf Hitler's Nazis and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 24, 2015
Capital punishment's slow death in America
Capital punishment is withering away in America, as even conservatives increasingly oppose it.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 16, 2015
Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack, which killed three people and wounded 264 in the crowds at the race's finish line.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 16, 2015
Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence seen more as symbolic judgment
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death Friday. But his execution may not happen for decades — if ever.
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2015
Australia's moral posturing at Indonesia is misguided
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was wrong to allow the execution of two convicted Australian drug traffickers to damage relations with Indonesia.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 28, 2015
Bataan Death March survivors in U.S. call on Abe to acknowledge wartime atrocities
As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to address the U.S. Congress in a highly anticipated speech on Wednesday local time, what he says about Japan's wartime past — and how he says it — is foremost on the minds of many, particularly in East Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 2, 2015
Broadway composer Frank Wildhorn brings life to hit manga 'Death Note' on stage
Frank Wildhorn, the man responsible for bringing a batch of literary classics to the stage ("Jekyll & Hyde," "Dracula," "The Scarlet Pimpernel"), is taking on the popular manga series "Death Note" as his latest project.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 23, 2015
Malaysia parties promise Islamic penalties in bid to lure votes
Six months after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak stood before the United Nations and urged Muslims worldwide to be moderate in their religion, members of his own party are supporting a law that punishes adulterers with death and thieves with amputation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 18, 2015
Psycho-drama mystery tests Tani's 'pop' principles
"Probably nobody ever got involved with theater the way I did," Kenichi Tani said with a laugh, explaining that because his teachers at school were "really boring" he set his sights on becoming an interesting teacher in the future.
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Mar 15, 2015
Death toll grows in 3/11 aftermath
Four years after calamity struck Fukushima in March 2011, the death rate among its nearly 120,000 nuclear evacuees is growing conspicuously amid the stresses of refugee life.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 24, 2015
Saudi court orders death for man who renounced Islam
An Islamic court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to death for renouncing Islam, the English-language daily Saudi Gazette reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 24, 2015
Indonesian president says no delay to executions despite mercy pleas
Indonesia's president said on Tuesday the planned execution of 11 convicts on death row, most on drugs charges, would not be delayed. He warned foreign countries not to intervene in Jakarta's right to use capital punishment.

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