HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...

TOKYO (AP) — A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a Japan ese retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple murder — said Tuesday that the defense team is ...

TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors said Tuesday they will not appeal the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder case after ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan (WKRC) - The world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted after it was discovered that investigators planted evidence to frame him. 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction. After a ...

In a landmark decision, Japan has awarded 217 million yen (approximately $1.44 million) in compensation to Iwao Hakamada, an 89-year-old former boxer who holds the record as the world’s ...

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 kept him ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a 1966 murder conviction. By Yan Zhuang A Japanese court awarded $1.4 million ...