HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on ...
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that ...
The appeal of a Vietnamese property tycoon given the death penalty for fraud totaling $27 billion will begin on Monday after she pleaded for a more "lenient and humane" sentence. Property ...
I did not belittle myself as the sister of a death row inmate. I lived without shame,” she told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview at her home in the central Japanese city of Hamamatsu.
A 2024 white paper on measures to prevent death by overwork in Japan found that 883 people were recognized ... This was the fourth year in a row that it had been above 10 days. In 2017, the rate of ...
A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to a man who spent 58 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was kept on death row for more than 50 of those years before ...
Iwao Hakamada, center, former Japanese death-row inmate acquitted after nearly 50 years on death row, and his sister Hideko, right, receive an apology from Shizuoka Prefectural Police chief ...
Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized ... investigation and wrongful conviction that had kept him on death row until last month, when he was acquitted in a retrial.