Japan’s most recent execution, in July 2022, was of a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in ...

Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to death for his 2017 strangling and dismembering of eight women and one man in his ...

Iwao Hakamada, wrongfully convicted of murder, spent over four decades on death row before being awarded $1.4 million for his suffering. This payout highlights issues in Japan’s justice system.

Boxer on death row for 46 years after he was framed for quadruple murder by police awarded record payout. Iwao Hakamada is believed to be the world’s longest-serving death row inmate ...

The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last.

DEATH CONSTANTLY LOOMING: Decades of detention took a major toll on Iwao Hakamada’s mental health, his lawyers describing him as ‘living in a world of fantasy’ A Japanese man wrongly convicted of ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, was wrongly convicted for a quadruple murder in 1968 and sentenced to be hanged. ... Hakamada is the fifth death row inmate granted a retrial in Japan's post-war history.