“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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has told a Japanese court she didn't know she had drugs in her luggage as her smuggling trial ...