Show more Show less Tomoya Asanuma endured almost four months of detention for charges including assault that he was ultimately acquitted In Japan, pre-indictment detention can last up to 23 days, ...
A case in point is Iwao Hakamada, who was once the world's longest-serving death-row inmate. His convictions -- quashed last year -- relied partly on confessions made during what the Supreme Court ...
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 ...