Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate wins record £1m after wrongful conviction - The case relied heavily on a confession he later retracted, claiming it was extracted under duress ...

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 1966 murder conviction. By Yan Zhuang A Japanese court awarded $1.4 ...

The number of children under 18 who became victims of crimes through social media use in Japan last year dropped 10.8% from the previous year to 1,486, the lowest in the past 10 years, the ...