An old Japanese prisoner who got death penalty in China seems to be executed soon, news reported today. This is a hard topic, so I’m not sure if I could write about it here.

Some years ago, I heard about this Japanese person who got jailed in China because of the penalty of smuggling drugs in to China. First of all, I need to say that all the people must obey the law of the country as far as they live in the country. And this person actually broke the law of China, in that sense, there could be no excuse for the penalty he unfortunately got.

Of course I can’t say any opinion here because the law will be the judge there.

But, I would need to comment from the other aspect. I read about this person in magazines,. He was in very poor situation then, he got fired and had no job or money then. All he could do for his life was anything that could bring money to him.  In that situation, unfortunately…really unfortunately, the smuggler group found him.  He had to do it for money. Job seemed easy because he had just to carry SOMETHING he didn’t know to China.  He was too naive then, but he did it for money first. The result was the death penalty.

I feel really pity for him.  It’s too sad to hear it.  There are same kind of older people in Japan now by losing their jobs.  But they need money to live. What he did was of course wrong, but what made him such was the Japanese society. It’s not always his fault.  If he could just work for his simple life, he had no obligation to work like that.  He didn’t have to go to strange place for him with carrying strange things with him.

Japanese government today announced “  we regret it very much”.  What a light word.  Human life is not light. Do they know that ?

Amnesty of Japan also seems to send a letter to China to stop it from humanity aspect.  But when we think of the death penalty system, Japan needs to understand that there still is the death penalty system in Japan and some are still executed each year in Japan.

I really hope the person in China could have a calmness in mind in any situation ( it’s hard though), but Japan has to think about human life again…now.