After a long fight for justice led by his sister, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was on Thursday declared innocent of the quadruple murder that he spent 46 years on death row for. "Finally I have won ...

Japan's Shizuoka District Court cleared Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer, in a retrial on Thursday, marking a monumental reversal of a conviction that had kept him on death row for ...

Former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada cuts a profoundly tragic figure in the annals of Japan’s deeply flawed justice system. He was a victim of a gross miscarriage of justice that took decades ...

SHIZUOKA--Prosecutors again sought the death sentence in the retrial of Iwao Hakamada, an 88-year-old former boxer who spent decades on death row in what his legal team described as a travesty of ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Iwao Hakamada, then a professional boxer, was accused in 1966 of killing four people, including two children, and burning down their house.

Iwao Hakamada, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, was found guilty in 1968 of murdering his boss, his boss's wife, and their two children and setting fire to their home. He initially ...

Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death row inmate to be found not guilty in a retrial in postwar Japan, where prosecutors have a more than 99% ...

Iwao Hakamada was acquitted after 46 years on death row for a 1968 quadruple murder. Hakamada was the longest-serving inmate on death row of any prisoner worldwide. Japan and the US are the only G7 ...