Citing the case of Iwao Hakamata, an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

Monday’s trial comes just weeks after the recent acquittal of an 88-year-old former boxer, Iwao Hakamada, who was on death ...

ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...

Despite a proposal by legal experts, the Japanese government has ruled out setting up a commission to review capital ...

TOKYO — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had ...

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

Japan and the United States are the only two countries in the Group of Seven advanced nations that have capital punishment. Hakamada was the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner and only ...

The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...

HAMAMATSU, Japan — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...

(Kyodo News via AP) Former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, left, and his sister Hideko Hakamada attend a gathering of supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan on Oct. 14, 2024. (Kyodo News ...