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

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 ...

Despite the urging of a private-sector panel, the government will not establish a commission to examine the death penalty, ...

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

TOKYO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Thursday ruled out abolishing the death penalty, rejecting calls by domestic legal experts for a review amid international pressure to end capital ...

The appeal comes after the tycoon was convicted of money laundering and jailed for life in a separate case last month.

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

HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — 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 ...

The events of World War II impacted countless millions, but learning the truth about them can depend on a handful of people ...

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 ...