await execution injapan, where support for capital punishment remains high. our tokyo correspondent rupert wingfield hayes has more. japan has a very unique system and certainly human rights groups and people campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty here has said it is a very cruel and unusual system. in a large part notjust because of the use of hanging and the fact that japan along with the united states are really the only major industrialised country that continues to use execution as a form of punishment, butjapan has is very specific way that it is done which is that the inmate on death row may spend many years not knowing if this date, which day, is going to be their last day before they are put to death. they are only told literally on the morning that it happens so these three men, as they were all men, would have been woken up this