Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...

A series of powerful earthquakes hit Japan's western coast, causing a death toll of at least 94 with dozens still missing. Officials reported 55 deaths in Wajima, 23 in Suzu and others in neighboring ...

Hideo Hiraoka has not forgotten the barbs and sneers directed his way over his cautious stance toward ordering death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aftershocks continued to jolt Japan on Wednesday as the death toll from a series of strong earthquakes rose to at least 64.

Aftershocks threatened to bury more homes and block roads crucial for relief shipments, as the death toll from the earthquakes that rattled Japan's western coastline this past week rose to 126 on ...

A U.S. Navy sailor was charged Thursday by Japanese prosecutors with causing the death of a motorcyclist in a traffic collision in September near a gate at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan. The Yokohama ...

A United Nations panel called Japan's method of execution 'cruel', among other criticisms of its use of capital punishment People in Japan are expressing their anger after a United Nations panel urged ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --The death toll from this week's devastating magnitude-7.6 earthquake in Japan has surpassed 120 with hundreds of residents still unaccounted for, officials said Saturday. Japanese ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning against ...