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		</div><p>Japan has executed its first foreigner in 10 years, a Chinese man convicted over the 2003 murder and robbery of a family of four.</p>
<p>Wei Wei, 40, was hanged on Thursday at a detention centre in Fukuoka, where he had been on death row for more than 16 years, Justice Minister Masako Mori said.</p>
<p>Wei was convicted of robbing and killing a clothing store owner and his wife and two children at their home in Fukuoka.</p>
<p>He and two Chinese accomplices dumped the bodies into the sea after attaching weights to them, Ms Mori said at a news conference.</p>
<p>Japan has maintained the death penalty despite growing international criticism.</p>
<p>Ms Mori said she signed the execution order after careful examination, taking into consideration the international anti-execution movement.</p>
<p>She said Japan is a law-abiding country and the execution was based on its criminal justice system.</p>
<p><em>“It was an extremely cold-blooded and cruel case, in which (Wei) killed four innocent members of a happy family,”</em> she said.</p>
<p>Wei’s two accomplices were tried in China, where one was sentenced to death and the other was given life imprisonment, according to Japan’s Kyodo News agency.</p>
<p>Japan and the US are the only two countries in the Group of Seven advanced nations that retain the death penalty. A survey by the Japanese government showed an overwhelming majority of the public supports executions.</p>
<p>Japan now has 112 people on death row, including 84 seeking retrials, according to the justice ministry.</p>
<p>Executions are carried out in high secrecy in Japan, where prisoners are not informed of their fate until the morning they are hanged.</p>
<p>Since 2007, Japan has begun disclosing the names of those executed and some details of their crimes, but disclosures are still limited.</p>
<p>Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned to power in 2012, his government has executed 39 people.</p>
<p>Last year, Japan hanged 15 people, including the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and 12 former followers convicted over a deadly Tokyo subway gas attack.</p>
<p>Some politicians, including governing party members who oppose executions, recently launched a group to promote public discussion of the death penalty.</p>
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