Have you been a good boy, a bad boy, or a really, really bad boy? Santa’s got something special in his sack…

Three of the four were convicted of murder and robber, and one for murder. Two of them were in their 70s, one in his 60s and one in his 40s. While they do have the death penalty in Japan, it is used sparingly, with only two to five executions taking place each year. There are currently 93 inmates on death row in Japan.

And for the people who will wail some senseless argument about executing folks on Christmas day (it doesn’t matter when, only if), Japan isn’t a Christian state and there is no public holiday for Xmas. IT DOES NOT EXIST HERE except as another excuse for shopping and dating and endless replays of tunes like (God help me, not again) Last Christmas – Read this blah.

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