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Feb 3 2016 8:00am
Making a Murderer and Matsumoto Kenji: The truth can be stranger than fiction
Does this set of circumstances sound familiar? A man from a poor...
Jun 25 2015 12:06pm
Japan carries out first execution of year
‘To take a man’s life in this way is the politics of the gutter’ - ...
Jun 17 2015 1:14pm
After four decades on Japan's death row, Okunishi should be retried, not hanged
Okunishi Masaru is Japan’s longest serving death row inmate. This wee...
Aug 29 2014 12:42pm
Japan: Hanging of two men this morning 'dismal news'
The execution of two men in Japan this morning is dismal news and part...
Jun 26 2014 7:36am
Japan: 'deplorable' secret execution of death row prisoner this morning condemned
In Japan death row inmates 'live under the constant fear of executi...
Mar 31 2014 4:16pm
Hakamada Iwao
Hakamada is 87. He holds the record for being the world's longest-serv...
Mar 31 2014 1:18pm
Japan: Appeal adds to psychological torture of freed death row inmate
A decision by Japanese prosecutors to appeal against a court ruling to...
Mar 27 2014 2:12pm
Hakamada: Three days to guarantee his freedom
After more than 45 years on death row, 78-year-old Hakamada has been r...