The Osaka District Court acquitted a couple on Wednesday over the 1995 death of an 11-year-old girl, in a long-awaited retrial.
Keiko Aoki, 52, and Tatsuhiro Boku, 50, each served a little over 20 years for the murder of Aoki's daughter in a house fire in Osaka Prefecture.
In the retrial, the court found no credibility in confessions that the pair allegedly gave during interrogation.