David T. Johnson
David T. Johnson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the author of many works on Japanese criminal justice, including The Culture of Capital Punishment in Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and Japan’s Prosecution Review Commission: On the Democratic Oversight of Decisions Not to Charge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), both of which have also been published in Japanese by Iwanami Shinsho. More recently, he is the author of “Is Rape a Crime in Japan?” (International Journal of Asian Studies, 2024), which is available via open access.