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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends an upper house budget committee session at the parliament in Tokyo in February. Abe has expressed strong support for the death penalty and says the public backs him. (Toru Hanai/Reuters/File)

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Two gangsters were hanged in Japan last week. More executions are likely under new Prime Minister Abe, who has expressed strong support for the death penalty – and says the public backs him.

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