Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamata, 89, was sentenced to death in 1968 for a quadruple murder despite repeatedly alleging that the police had fabricated evidence against him. Once the world ...

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 ...

Iwao Hakamata was found guilty in 1968 for the June 30, 1966, stabbing deaths of four people. However, a retrial last year threw out his conviction after ruling that evidence incriminating him was ...

The payout represents 12,500 yen ($83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last. The former ...

The payout represents ￥12,500 (US$83) for each day of the more than four decades that Iwao Hakamada spent in detention, most of it on death row when each day could have been his last. It is a record ...

Lawyers for Iwao Hakamata, who was acquitted in a retrial for a 1966 murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture, plan to sue the central and prefectural governments for damages in August. They aim to take ...

“I’ve waited for this day for 57 years,” she told supporters. The court had just granted a retrial for her brother, Iwao, who had been sentenced to death after being convicted of murdering ...

Hakamada Iwao had maintained his innocence and, with his elder sister, fought to clear his name. Hakamada goes outside as part of his daily routine after being found not guilty. The Shizuoka ...

Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, was awarded $1.4 million in compensation this week following his acquittal ...