Shigeru Ishiba has moved quickly to set his stamp on Japanese politics, officially becoming Japanese prime minister and ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row more than five decades ago.

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple ...

The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

The Japanese parliament officially elected Sigeru Ishiba as the country's new prime minister on Tuesday, replacing Fumio ...

The world's longest-serving death row prisoner thanked his supporters for helping him achieve "complete victory" after a Japanese court last week overturned his decades-old murder conviction.

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) elects a new leader, who promptly calls a general election as one of his first ...

Last month, a city in Oklahoma agreed to pay more than $7 million to a former death row inmate who was exonerated after ...

Ryoichi Ogawa was supposed to go on a fun-filled family trip to Tokyo Disneyland, but he flatly refused. “I’m in high school already,” the rebellious teen protested, rejecting the offer.

When Yoko Ogawa was a teenager, she fell upon the Diary of Anne Frank. There was nothing particularly unusual in that – her secondary school in the city of Okayama in central Japan had been full ...

Sushi restaurants in the Philadelphia area were once few and far between. They now blanket the region. As the sushi game ...