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David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (davidjoh@hawaii.edu). He is the author of many works on criminal justice in Japan, including The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan (Palgrave, 2020), which is available by open access.

Bruce E. Aronson and David T. Johnson

Comparative Reflections on the Carlos Ghosn Case and Japanese Criminal Justice

David T. Johnson, Hiroshi Fukurai and Mari Hirayama

Reflections on the TEPCO Trial: Prosecution and Acquittal after Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown

Matthew Carney and David T. Johnson

Will Wrongful Convictions Be a Catalyst for Change in Japanese Criminal Justice?

David T. Johnson

An Innocent Man: Hakamada Iwao and the Problem of Wrongful Convictions in Japan

David T. Johnson

Wrongful Convictions and the Culture of Denial in Japanese Criminal Justice

David T. Johnson

Killing Asahara: What Japan Can Learn about Victims and Capital Punishment from the Execution of an American Terrorist

David T. Johnson

Covering Capital Punishment: Murder Trials and the Media in Japan−−

David T. Johnson

War in a Season of Slow Revolution: Defense Lawyers and Lay Judges in Japanese Criminal Justice−−

David T. Johnson

Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan's Lay Judge System

David T. Johnson

Chinese Executions and the Japanese Dog That Did Not Bark

Franklin E. Zimring and David T. Johnson

Death Penalty Lessons from Asia

David T. Johnson

Early Returns from Japan’s New Criminal Trials