Capital punishment in Japan

Quality:

Capital punishment in Japan - overview of the capital punishment in Japan. Article “Capital punishment in Japan” in English Wikipedia has 58.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 87 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 19.57 points.

This article has the best quality in Japanese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Capital punishment in Japan” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Capital punishment in Japan”, its content was written by 282 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 920 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 508 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2320 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1807 in December 2015
• Global: #1880 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6127 in July 2022
• Global: #2028 in July 2018

There are 17 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Japanese (ja) 日本における死刑		64.1105
2	English (en) Capital punishment in Japan		58.7096
3	Chinese (zh) 日本死刑制度		42.0508
4	French (fr) Peine de mort au Japon		40.977
5	Korean (ko) 일본의 사형제		39.0335
6	Persian (fa) مجازات اعدام در ژاپن		30.1519
7	Norwegian (no) Dødsstraff i Japan		28.5577
8	Finnish (fi) Kuolemanrangaistus Japanissa		28.4516
9	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci w Japonii		25.8216
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في اليابان		21.6132

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 日本における死刑		5 408 182
2	English (en) Capital punishment in Japan		3 063 990
3	French (fr) Peine de mort au Japon		430 029
4	Chinese (zh) 日本死刑制度		376 818
5	Spanish (es) Pena capital en Japón		247 559
6	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci w Japonii		99 647
7	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Japan		65 672
8	Korean (ko) 일본의 사형제		52 033
9	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte no Japão		31 365
10	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في اليابان		28 001

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Capital punishment in Japan		35 511
2	Japanese (ja) 日本における死刑		16 558
3	Chinese (zh) 日本死刑制度		3 172
4	French (fr) Peine de mort au Japon		2 789
5	Spanish (es) Pena capital en Japón		1 699
6	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Japan		806
7	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci w Japonii		631
8	Turkish (tr) Japonya'da ölüm cezası		584
9	Portuguese (pt) Pena de morte no Japão		521
10	Korean (ko) 일본의 사형제		426

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 日本における死刑		316
2	English (en) Capital punishment in Japan		282
3	French (fr) Peine de mort au Japon		145
4	Chinese (zh) 日本死刑制度		43
5	Spanish (es) Pena capital en Japón		25
6	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Japan		25
7	Polish (pl) Kara śmierci w Japonii		21
8	Norwegian (no) Dødsstraff i Japan		20
9	Hungarian (hu) Halálbüntetés Japánban		10
10	Korean (ko) 일본의 사형제		8

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Capital punishment in Japan		6
2	Chinese (zh) 日本死刑制度		4
3	French (fr) Peine de mort au Japon		2
4	Japanese (ja) 日本における死刑		2
5	Spanish (es) Pena capital en Japón		1
6	Indonesian (id) Hukuman mati di Jepang		1
7	Korean (ko) 일본의 사형제		1
8	Dutch (nl) Doodstraf in Japan		1
9	Arabic (ar) عقوبة الإعدام في اليابان		0
10	Persian (fa) مجازات اعدام در ژاپن		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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