Editing Death by burning (section)

===Japan===

While the earliest record of death by burning in Japan appears in "[[Nihonshoki]]", on [[:ja:石川楯|Ishikawa no Tate]] and [[:ja:池津媛|Iketsuhime]] during the reign of [[Emperor Yuryaku]], the contemporary code of law hasn't survived and the historical authenticity of this event is uncertain. The oldest preserved written code, [[Yōrō Code]] didn't mention death by burning. It still included capital punishment but it was either death by strangulation or death by cutting with sword. 

The historically reliable earliest record of death by burning was ruled by [[Oda Nobukatsu]]. 

In the first half of the 17th century, Japanese authorities sporadically persecuted [[Kirishitan|Christians]], with some executions seeing persons being burnt alive. At [[Nagasaki]] in 1622 some 25 monks were burnt alive,<ref>''Lee'' (2010),[https://books.google.com/books?id=LKj2B9vd7HsC&pg=PA121 pp. 121–122]</ref> and in [[Edo]] in 1624, 50 Christians were burnt alive.<ref>''Matsumoto'' (2009), [https://books.google.com/books?id=kF1sTidtP_sC&pg=PA73 p. 73]</ref>

Tokugawa Shogunate included death by burning alive into their criminal code. Arsonists were often sentenced to death by burning but not always. They might be sentenced to exile instead. 

At [[Meiji Restoration]] death by burning was abolished in 1868[https://www.moj.go.jp/content/000096623.pdf].