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

After using “fabricated” evidence in a murder trial that put Iwao Hakamada on death row for decades, prosecutors have finally accepted the innocence of the former convict. The Supreme Public ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that ...

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 ...

A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada after he was kept on death row for more than 50 years until last month, when he was acquitted in a retrial.

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.

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 ...