An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million ...

The case sparked scrutiny of the justice system in Japan, where gaining a retrial is notoriously hard and death row inmates ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded US$1.44 ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

Mr Iwao Hakamada, now 89, was exonerated in 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after a retrial. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder ...

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ...