The hiatus has lasted over two and a half years, the longest break since Japan’s Ministry of Justice began publicizing the names and crimes of death row prisoners in 2007. Since the acquittal of ...

Japan has taken a major step toward revising the country's retrial system, which has been criticized as making the process of ...

MITO (Kyodo) -- A revised law on immigration control in Japan, which went into effect last June, introduced a new ...