“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...
An Asahi Shimbun digital feature focusing on handwritten letters from a death row inmate won the top Grand Prix in the Japan ...
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 ...
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after ...
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 ...
CHIBA, Japan (AP) — An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on ...
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after her arrest, saying she is innocent and that she ...
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has told a Japanese court she didn't know she had drugs in her luggage as her smuggling trial ...