The vast majority of the public continues to endorse the country's death penalty system, according to a recent government survey. In the Cabinet Office's survey of 1,815 people between October and ...

The results may have been affected by the case of Iwao Hakamata, who was sentenced to death but was acquitted last year in his retrial for the 1966 murder of four people in Shizuoka Prefecture.

Iwao Hakamata, 88, was acquitted by the Shizuoka District Court last September after spending nearly half a century on death row before new evidence led to his release in 2014. He was recognized that ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending more than four decades on death row, ...

When Chiaki Kasai set out to make a documentary about Iwao Hakamata, a Japanese man who was acquitted in a retrial of a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending more than four decades on death row, ...

Hideyo Ogawa, a lawyer and secretary-general of Hakamata’s defense team, said on Dec. 26 that the reviews by the top prosecutors office and the Shizuoka police into the initial investigation ...