Culled from the Japan Times, Saturday, February 7, 2010

Most Japanese are too young to remember what painful death is like. Only a small percentage of them was alive at the time of the atomic blastings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moreover, the truly ancient among them may have fond memories of the tortures they inflicted on the Chinese during the famous “Rape of Nanking.” An intermediate number may have loved the death marches they inflicted on American prisoners during World War II. How else, can I account for their passionate love of the death penalty?

According to yesterday’s Japan Times, a staggeringly high percentage of the Japs favor the death penalty – 85.6%!

About 55 percent of respondents described the extension of the statute of limitations for capital crimes, including murder, to 25 years from 15 years in 2005 under the revised Code of Criminal Procedure, as “too short.” Half these sweethearts want statutes of limitation abolished altogether. Do you know some feeble, paralyzed 97 year old guy who committed a murder 75 years ago? Kill him!