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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

(Kyodo News via AP) Former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamada, left, and his sister Hideko Hakamada attend a gathering of supporters in Shizuoka, central Japan on Oct. 14, 2024. (Kyodo News ...

TOKYO (AP) — 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 ...