The elder sister of former Japanese death-row inmate Iwao Hakamata, 90, who was acquitted in a retrial, criticized on Saturday the Justice Ministry's current bill to reform the nation's retrial system ...

A lawsuit filed by three Japanese death row inmates seeking a suspension of their hangings has been dismissed. According to Kyodo News and other sources on the 16th, the Osaka District Court in Japan ...

The family of a wrongfully arrested Japanese man who died while in prolonged pre-trial detention sued the state on April 6, seeking to hold judges accountable for repeatedly denying him bail. This is ...