The executions are the first to take place in the country since December 2019; they are also the first since the new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, took power in early October.
The Justice Ministry, contacted by Agence France-Presse, was unable to immediately confirm the press reports. Japanese media did not specify who the three death row inmates executed were.
The most recent execution, in December 2019, was that of a Chinese man convicted for the murders of four members of the same family in the southwestern part of the archipelago in 2003.
Japanese authorities executed three people in 2019 and 15 in 2018, including 13members of the Om Shinrikyo sect involved in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
In Japan today, there are more than 100 people sentenced to the death penalty awaiting execution. Generally, several years pass between the imposition of the death penalty and execution by hanging.
Japanese public support for the death penalty remains strong, despite criticism from abroad, particularly from human rights advocacy organizations such as Amnesty International.
Source: APE-MPA
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