Hideko Hakamada spent nearly 60 years campaigning to get her brother, former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada, cleared and now campaigns against capital punishment ...

Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against capital ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police and prosecutors this week took the unusual step of offering an apology, flowers and deep bows at the grave of a wrongfully accused man who died of cancer without proper ...

TOKYO (AP) — A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the ...