“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 Australian accused of smuggling amphetamines in a suitcase has appeared in a Japanese court nearly two years after her ...

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 ...

An Asahi Shimbun digital feature focusing on handwritten letters from a death row inmate won the top Grand Prix in the Japan ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Next week , Japan’s national legislature, the Diet, is scheduled to convene its first session after the general elections on ...

Japan often notifies prisoners on death row of their execution just minutes before, leaving Mr Hakamata uncertain of his fate for decades. He holds the record for being the world's longest-serving ...

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