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Using an Approach of Historical Sociology SAKURAI Satoshi January 22, 2011, Seikyusha, 213p. Japanese Page 
■SAKURAI Satoshi January 22, 2011 Japanese History of Executioners: Using an Approach of Historical Sociology，Seikyusha, 213p. ISBN-10: 4787233238 ISBN-13: 978-4787233233 1680 yen [amazon]／[kinokuniya] ■Contents Behind the citizen judge system has been a growing interest in the significance of giving a sentence of death. In addition, it has been actively discussed again if the death penalty system should be maintained or not. However, the previous discussions have focused only on "Whom will we kill? / Who will be killed?" and "Who have executed the death penalty itself?” has not been questioned. This book tries to clarify who have taken a role of execution in Japan and what social conditions for selecting executioners are by focusing on such cases as Yamada Asaemon in the Edo period or prison guards in the Meiji period, staying away from the controversial topic of the existence of death penalty system. Through retracing the continuous / discontinuous history to the present situation in which prison guards conduct execution, the author insists that the reason the Minister of Justice orders prison guards, not procurators or judicators, to “live together for killing, then kill them” just depends on accidental historical background. This book tries to solve complicated issues of execution in which ultimately not the nation but “a person” kills a person and propose what we should consider now. ■Table of Contents Introduction: Why Is the Assertion of "Denial of Killing a Person" Unacceptable? Introductory Chapter: Issues of Death Sentence and Execution Section 1 Two Aspects of Death Penalty Studies Section 2 Presupposed Background: Basic Knowledge on Executioners in Japan Section 3 Actual Executioners Section 4 Why Do Prison Staff Play a Role of Execution? Section 5 Methodology This Book Uses Chapter 1 Did Jail Staff in the Edo Period Play a Role of Execution? Section 1 Views of Criminal Punishment, Death Penalty and Social Status in the Edo Period Section 2 Were Jail Staff in the Edo Period Involved in Death Penalty? Section 3 Yamada Asaemon Who Carried Out Execution as a Sideline Work Chapter 2 Why Did Prison Staff Become Involved in Execution? Section 1 Emergence of the Gallows Section 2 Execution as a Dirty Work Section 3 Execution under the Previous Criminal Law Section 4 Comparison with the UK: It Is Not Well and Good that Execution Is One of Prison Staff's Duties Chapter 3 Several Issues of Executioners from Postwar to the Present Section 1 Involvement of GHQ in Enactment and Amendment of National Public Service Act Section 2 Lawsuit Claiming that the Gallows Is Unconstitutional Section 3 Disappearance of Execution Spots in Letters of the Law Section 4 Current Situation and Problem of Executioners Chapter 4 What Are Issues that Have Become Not Questioned? Section 1 Voice of Executioners Section 2 Transition of a Problem that Prison Staff Serves as Executioner Section 3 What Has Become Not Questioned? Conclusion Problem of Making Oneself Kill Others Afterword References that Are Not Mentioned in the Contexts UP: April 26, 2011 REV:May 2, 2011/May 12, 2011 *The Japanese-version page was prepared by SAKURAI Satoshi Translated by TAMURA Noriko Proofread by KATAOKA Minoru |