“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...

Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

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 ...

An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after ...

A private-sector panel highlighted various problems with Japan’s capital punishment system, including the possibility of ...

CHIBA, Japan (AP) — An Australian woman accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on ...

TOKYO — 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 had ...

Despite a proposal by legal experts, the Japanese government has ruled out setting up a commission to review capital ...

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

An Asahi Shimbun digital feature focusing on handwritten letters from a death row inmate won the top Grand Prix in the Japan ...

ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...

The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...