chamber

死刑廃止論争を活発化するために必要な情報開示でしょうが、なぜ今なのか、いろいろな憶測を呼んでいます。ともあれ太字箇所の表現は、英語学徒には要チェックのものです。
chamberという言葉を聞くと「商工会議所」だけではなく、通訳者時代によく「通って」いたあの部屋（？）を思い出します。わたしたちは通訳ブースをtorture chamberと呼んでいました。
でもtortureがあったからこそ、今の自分があるとも言えます。でもこちらの方のchamberには死んでも（？）足を踏み入れたくはない！（UG）
Japan reveals long-secretive execution process
Japan, one of the few industrialized countries with the death penalty, showed one of its execution chambers to the media for the first time Friday.
Reporters were shown the death chamber at the Tokyo Detention Facility, one of seven used across the country, according to a report in the Mainichi Daily News.
The unprecedented media access was ordered by Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, who after witnessing the deaths of two condemned prisoners last month, said she wanted to have a national debate on capital punishment in Japan, Mainchi reported. Chiba has previously spoken against the death penalty.

Execution in Japan is carried out by hanging.
The chamber showed to the media on Friday had no noose suspended from the ceiling but showed a trap door outlined in red. The condemned fall to a room below the execution chamber where their deaths are confirmed.
Reporters were not shown that room out of "consideration for the inmates' family and wardens," according to the Mainichi report.
A room where inmates are told they are about to be executed and can meet with a chaplain.
They did see other areas involved in the execution process, including the room where a button is pushed to release the trap door, a room where the condemned can get religious last rites or an entry room where inmates are told they are about to be executed.
In an accompanying article in Mainichi, prison officials described Japan’s execution process, long shrouded in secrecy.
The two men executed on July 28, Ogata Hidenori, 33, and Shinozawa Kazuo, 59, were the first put to death since the August 2009 elections in Japan, according to Amnesty International. The organization says 107 prisoners remain on death row in Japan.
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/27/japan-reveals-long-secretive-execution-process/