The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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