He Was the World’s Longest-Held Death-Row Inmate. He Was Also Innocent.
“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...
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Asahi Shimbun’s ‘letters from death row’ series wins top award
An Asahi Shimbun digital feature focusing on handwritten letters from a death row inmate won the top Grand Prix in the Japan ...
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Japan rules out ending death penalty despite panel's call for review
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 ...
Japan rules out scrapping death penalty despite panel's call for review
The panel, established in February at the initiative of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, also said abolishing the ...
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Japan rules out abolishing death penalty despite calls for review
ANKARA – Japan on Thursday ruled out ending the death penalty, spurning local and international pressures, including calls by ...
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An Australian on trial for drugs in Japan says she's the victim of a romance scam
An Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase appeared in a Japanese court on Monday nearly two years after ...
Aust woman's drug-smuggling trial begins in Japan
Perth grandmother Donna Nelson has told a Japanese court she didn't know she had drugs in her luggage as her smuggling trial ...
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A Japanese police chief apologizes to a man acquitted after 50 years on death row
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 ...
An Australian accused of drug smuggling in Japan says she’s the victim of a romance scam
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 ...