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

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

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

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world's longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, an official said Tuesday. The payout represents ...