The damning indictments in two cases expose flaws in a system that prides itself on a 99.8 per cent conviction rate. Read ...

Iwao Hakamada feared he would be another death penalty statistic in Japan after being convicted of murdering an executive of a miso manufacturer and three of his family members in Shizuoka ...

Hideko Hakamada, sister of former boxer Iwao Hakamada, who had been on death row in Japan for 47 years, showed a picture of her young brother Iwao during an interview outside the Tokyo Detention ...

This photo taken on September 29, 2024 shows Iwao Hakamada (L) speaking as his 91-year-old sister Hideko (R) holds the microphone during a judgment report session held by supporters in the city of ...

Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan 58 years after his arrest and after he spent 44 years on death row ...

The Tokyo High Court said Iwao Hakamada, who is the world's longest-serving death row inmate, deserves a retrial because of a possibility that key evidence that led to his conviction could have ...

Takahiro Shiraishi, dubbed the 'Twitter killer,' was executed in Japan for murdering and dismembering nine people in 2017.

Editor's note: This is the last in a four-part series on letters that Iwao Hakamada wrote while on death row. About a decade after cursing God, Iwao Hakamada was baptized Catholic at the Tokyo ...

A fter enduring a grueling 264-hour interrogation that shattered his chances of freedom, Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated at the age of 88.

Iwao Hakamada’s sister Hideko Hakamada and Hideyo Ogawa, a lawyer for her brother, in front of Tokyo High Court on Monday . AFP via Getty Images.

Iwao Hakamada spent almost half a century on death row after a gruelling 264-hour interrogation left his chances for freedom in tatters. The world's longest-serving death row inmate, Japanese ...