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 ...

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 ...

Geoff Dennis believes the technology sell-off is part of a classic contrarian or rotation year, compounded by fears of a US recession, tariff uncertainties, and limited Fed leeway for rate cuts. He ...

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, ...

Legit.ng earlier reported that in a landmark decision, an 88-year-old man, Iwao Hakamada, who holds the grim title of the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted by a Japanese ...

In the fiery spat between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it was a sentence that went largely unnoticed, but said quite a lot about the closeness the US leader thinks he ...

POKOK SENA, March 9 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail has yesterday hit back at PAS, after the latter urged Putrajaya to act fairly and transparently in handling racial or religious ...

SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) -- The Vatican has sent a letter to a Japanese man acquitted of a 1966 quadruple murder in a retrial, expressing the pope's joy over the freedom of Iwao Hakamada who spent more ...

If you think you've seen it all, these videos might change your mind. This wedding ceremony, which took place in the capital of Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, turned into a truly royal event. As you can see ...