Since his teenage years, Koji Hayashi has dreaded one thing: his stubborn, once-vivacious mother being hanged for murder ...

Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate wins record £1m after wrongful conviction - The case relied heavily on a confession he later retracted, claiming it was extracted under duress ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five ...

Japan's prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, cleared after 46 years on death row, receives a record $1.4 million in compensation.

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

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, 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’s ...

TOKYO—A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 ...

Kazuo Ishikawa celebrates a report that Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty in his retrial, in the city of Shizuoka on Sept. 26, 2004. (Mainichi/Hirohiko Kumamoto) SAYAMA, Saitama -- An 86-year-old ...

KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 — The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has recorded statements from 36 individuals as part of its investigation into corruption and money laundering allegations ...

Australia's prime minister cautioned that the fallout from a vicious tropical storm over the weekend was “far from over” as parts of two states remained inundated with perilous floodwaters on Monday, ...