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Place of Birth: Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
About Yoshihiro Yasuda
- Yoshihiro Yasuda (?? ?? Yasuda Yoshihiro, born December 4, 1947) is a famed and controversial lawyer in Japan who is known for his anti-death penalty activism.
- With the death penalty being a prominent method of prosecution in the Japanese judicial system for violent criminals, Yasuda has a history of defending many of these criminals as he wishes to prevent the death penalty from being imposed.
- As an advocate for the abolition of the death penalty, Yasuda has been able to successfully prevent a large number of death sentences from being handed down in his career.
- At the time Yasuda took on many of these violent cases, such cases were seen as damaging to a lawyer's career, and therefore, there existed only a small number of lawyers who took on such cases because many feared the media bashing, and could not expect much compensation.
- A significant number of these cases were then defended by Yasuda, and this concentration was viewed as problematic by some critics.
- He took part in many of these controversial trials because he believed that the suspects were tried unfairly as a result of the mass media bashings.
- Yasuda is also known to reject television appearances for he dislikes the mass media.
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