Japan Today8h
Japan rules out ending death penalty despite panel's call for review
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 ...
朝日新聞社14h
Panel seeks hold on death penalty until flaws in system resolved
The report noted that in Japan, five death-row inmates were exonerated through retrials, including the acquittal in October ...
Newsday24d
A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
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 ...
Human Rights Watch10d
Inquiry Needed into Japan’s Flawed Criminal Justice System
Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...
The Independent27d
'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
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 ...
UCA News23d
Japan police apologize to world’s longest-serving death row inmate
A local police chief in Japan has apologized to a man who was acquitted after spending nearly 50 years on death row in a 1966 quadruple murder case. Takayoshi Tsuda, chief of the Shizuoka Prefectural ...
seattlepi.com24d
A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
Hakamada was the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner and only the fifth death row inmate to be acquitted in a retrial ...
Newsday26d
'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
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 ...
WFMZ-TV10d
'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal
(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 ...