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 ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

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

Despite a proposal by legal experts, the Japanese government has ruled out setting up a commission to review capital ...

Hakamada was the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner and only the fifth death row inmate to be acquitted in a retrial ...

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

HAMAMATSU, Japan — 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 siblings are ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions ...

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

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 ...