Three people jointly filed a lawsuit against the Japanese government on Nov. 13, claiming that they were unfairly restricted ...

The report noted that in Japan, five death-row inmates were exonerated through retrials, including the acquittal in October ...

Hideko Hakamada celebrates after the Shizuoka District Court found her brother Iwao Hakamada not guilty following a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, in Shizuoka, central Japan, on Sept.

Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief Takayoshi Tsuda bowed deeply before Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, to apologize in-person for the decades of wrongful imprisonment he endured due to ...

Iwao Hakamada, a former boxer, was acquitted by the Shizuoka District Court, which said police and prosecutors had collaborated to fabricate and plant evidence against him, and forced him to ...

Iwao Hakamada, center, former Japanese death-row inmate acquitted after nearly 50 years on death row, and his sister Hideko, right, receive an apology from Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 kept ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...