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

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

11, 2024. (Mainichi/Kazumi Kitamura) Hakamada spent 34 years incarcerated on death row over the murder of a family of four in eastern Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture. If the death penalty had been ...

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 ...

He was arrested in August, 1966, in the killing of an executive at a miso bean paste company and three of his family members in Hamamatsu, central Japan. He was initially sentenced to death in a ...

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 ...