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Satoshi Sakurai




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*Current Status: Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University

[Areas of Interest]
- Historical Sociology of "Executioner" in Japan" (Preparatory Doctoral Thesis in Japanese)
- Legal Position of Killing and the Modern Society: From the Historical Sociology of Executioners (Provisional Title for the Doctoral Thesis)
- Interventions on a Person's Body that Result in His Death
- Problems Concerning Abolition of the Death Penalty

[Academic Achievements]
*March 31, 2009 "A Study of the Arrangements for the Executioner in Beheadings: From the Statutes of the Edo Era to the Penal Code of the Meiji Era"
Core Ethics 5: 171-180 [abstract] (http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/ce/ce5engtext.htm#15)

*March 31, 2008 "An Inquiry about the Position of "Executioner" in the Debate on the Continuation or Abolition of the Death Penalty: The Appearance and Disappearance of the Description of Execution in Japanese Official Documents" Core Ethics 4:93-104 [Abstract]



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