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

TOKYO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government on Thursday ruled out abolishing the death penalty, rejecting calls by domestic legal experts for a review amid international pressure to end capital ...

The appeal comes after the tycoon was convicted of money laundering and jailed for life in a separate case last month.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner was acquitted on Thursday, more than half a century after his murder conviction, when a Japanese court ruled that evidence had been fabricated.