Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate wins record £1m after wrongful conviction - The case relied heavily on a confession ...

But Japan's 99.9 percent conviction rate -- conveying rock-solid trust to prosecutors ... this month aged 86 after spending ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) -- Iwao Hakamada, 89, who was acquitted in a retrial over the 1966 murder of a family of four in central Japan, has been awarded a record sum in criminal compensation from the ...

The attack remains one of the most shocking atrocities in Japan, a country known for its low crime rates. The cult, Aum Shinrikyo or Supreme Truth, has since disbanded. Its founder, Shoko Asahara ...