People in favor of the death penalty in Japan have gone up by 4.2%  since the survey was last conducted in 2004. The survey which the government began doing in 1994 asks men and women over the age of 20 are they in favor of the death penalty or against it;

In the survey, respondents were allowed to give multiple answers to why they are in favor of the death penalty, seek the abolition of capital punishment and think the period of the statute of limitation for capital crimes is too short.

85.6% of people favor the death penalty compared to the 1994 statics of 73.8% favoring the death penalty.

In expressing their preference for execution, 54.1 percent said the feelings of victims and their families would not be satisfied if the death penalty were abolished, while 53.2 percent said perpetrators of heinous crimes should pay for their crimes with their lives.

In addition, 51.5 percent said they believe the number of such crimes would increase if the death penalty were abolished.

Of the respondents who said execution should be abolished, 55.9 percent said the perpetrators should be kept alive to pay for their crimes, while 43.2 percent said miscarriages of justice would be irrevocable if the death sentence were carried out.

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