But last fortnight, when death, as it must to all men, came to China’s No.11 traitor (aged 60, in a Japanese hospital), it came not from gunfire but from diabetes. Wang Ching-wei entered Chinese ...

The award-winning movie and television star had a large following across Asia and beyond, and her death has prompted an outpouring of grief and shock. Takeuchi is among a series of Japanese ...

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a ...

A senior Japanese public prosecutor on Wednesday bowed in apology to Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row prisoner whose conviction was quashed this year. The octogenarian spent 46 ...