A Japanese court has awarded ¥217 million ($1.4 million) to Iwao Hakamada, 89, who was acquitted in 2023 after spending more ...

Iwao Hakamata, Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate, wins historic compensation for enduring 'extremely severe' mental ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in ...

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

On March 20, 1995, 12 people were killed, and more than 5,000 made ill in a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. A ...

Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...

Mogami Ai, a popular Japanese voice actor and live streamer, was stabbed to death by an alleged 'anti-fan' while she was streaming on Whowatch in Shinjuku, Tokyo, local media outlets reported on ...

Police in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 57-year-old man on suspicion of beating a 69-year-old man to death in Fuji City in 2024. According to police, Manabu Sano, who is a ...