Hideko Hakamata says she opposes the draft government bill, which seeks to ban the use of evidence disclosed during court ...

Iwao Hakamata's elder sister called for public prosecutors to be barred from appealing court decisions granting retrials and ...

The older sister of former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata has reiterated her criticism of the government over a planned revamping of the country's retrial system. A draft of the Justice Minis ...

There are only two first world democracies using the Death Penalty, Japan and the United States, but how each goes about their executions is vastly different, and prisoners waiting on death row have a ...