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CONVICTIONS

Ohkawara Kakohki President Masaaki Okawara speaks to reporters in front of the Tokyo District Court on Wednesday following a ruling ordering the government to pay damages.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 27, 2023
Tokyo court rules executives of spray dryer firm were wrongly indicted
The case involving Ohkawara Kakohki, a Yokohama-based manufacturer, has once again highlighted problems in the nation’s criminal justice system.
Hideko Hakamata (front, second from left) and lawyers head to the Shizuoka District Court on Friday for the first hearing of the retrial of Hakamata's brother Iwao, who spent nearly half a century behind bars before new evidence led to his release in 2014.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 27, 2023
Man accused of 1966 quadruple murder is innocent, sister says
Iwao Hakamata, 87, spent nearly half a century behind bars before new evidence led to his release in 2014.
Iwao Hakamata and his elder sister Hideko are pictured at his home in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2023
First hearing for 1966 murder retrial in Japan set for Oct. 27
Iwao Hakamata spent nearly half a century behind bars before new evidence led to his release in 2014.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 10, 2023
Shizuoka prosecutors to push for guilty verdict in Hakamata retrial
Prosecutors have said they plan to argue that the March retrial decision by the Tokyo High Court was “groundless.”
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2023
Prosecutors to seek conviction at retrial of Iwao Hakamata over 1966 murder
The move comes despite the prosecutors' decision not to appeal a high court order in March that granted a retrial, laying the ground for his exoneration.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 7, 2023
Japan high court denies retrial of man over 2002 murder of boy
A high court refused to grant a retrial to a man who served 17 years in prison for abducting and killing a 22-month-old boy near Nagoya in 2002.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 5, 2023
Japan high court denies retrial for 95-year-old woman over 1979 murder
A high court denied a retrial for a 95-year-old woman who served 10 years in prison for the murder of her brother-in-law in 1979 in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Mar 24, 2023
Iwao Hakamata: The former pro-boxer fighting for exoneration, with help from his sister
The day of his arrest forever changed the course of Hakamata's life, but it was also the beginning of a long, drawn out fight for exoneration.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 20, 2023
Tokyo prosecutors decide not to appeal Iwao Hakamata retrial decision
The case will now be sent to the Shizuoka District Court, with a high possibility that Hakamata will be exonerated over murders in 1966.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 17, 2023
Prosecutors to challenge decision to reopen Iwao Hakamata murder case
The Tokyo High Court decided to reopen the case after the Supreme Court canceled the high court's previous ruling rejecting the retrial plea by Iwao Hakamata.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2023
Tokyo High Court orders retrial in 1966 Iwao Hakamata murder case
After nearly six decades, 10 court decisions and more than 30 years on death row, the court on Monday ordered a retrial for the 87-year-old convicted murderer and former pro-boxer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 6, 2023
Tokyo High Court to decide whether to reopen Iwao Hakamata murder case
The decision on whether to reopen the high-profile 1966 Shizuoka Prefecture murder case will come on March 13, defense lawyers in the case have said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 21, 2022
Japan's top court scraps manga editor's guilty verdict over wife's death
It is the first time a guilty ruling reached by a district court under the lay judge system has been thrown out by the top court after being upheld by an appeals court.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2022
Film explores innocent man's decadeslong imprisonment in Japan
Shoji Sakurai, 75, endured 29 years of imprisonment, starting with his arrest in 1967 before his eventual release.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 20, 2022
‘Prior Convictions’: Probation workers and ex-cons tug at the heartstrings
Yoshiyuki Kishi's film about Japan's parole system is a well-intentioned account of the struggles ex-convicts face in the transition to normal life.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 31, 2020
Ex-nurse acquitted of 2003 murder after 12 years in prison
Mika Nishiyama was indicted after admitting to killing the patient in 2004, but she later retracted her confession, saying she had been coerced by investigators.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 27, 2020
In Shiga nurse's murder conviction, her disability was never an issue
Mika Nishiyama made a false confession and served 12 years. Then she was diagnosed as having an intellectual disability, ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 25, 2020
What pushed this Shiga assistant nurse to falsely confess to murder?
Why did Mika Nishiyama, a former assistant nurse who served 12 years in prison for murdering a male patient in 2003, falsely confess to killing him?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 22, 2020
Apparent false conviction brings Japan's justice system back into the spotlight
After already having served a 12-year prison sentence following her conviction for murdering a patient, former assistant nurse Mika Nishiyama, 40, is expected to finally be acquitted on March 31.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 3, 2020
Former assistant nurse in Shiga set to be acquitted in retrial over 2003 murder
A former assistant nurse convicted of murdering a patient in 2003 was set to be exonerated Monday after prosecutors chose not to contest new evidence presented by her defense team during the first hearing of her retrial.
'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.
Over 40% of Japan's municipalities at risk of vanishing, study finds
Of 1,729 local municipalities nationwide, 744 have been identified as being at risk of disappearing.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Tokyo issues strong warning on yen intervention as currency dips further
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks during a meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok on the sidelines of IMF and G20 meetings in Washington last week.
Princess Aiko makes debut at imperial garden party
Princess Aiko attends an imperial garden party in Tokyo on Tuesday.
For amateur sumo, a fresh start offers hope against time-wasting and gamesmanship
Wrestlers prepare for the start of a bout at the 2023 Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. Starting this month, placing one hand on the clay first is no longer allowed.
LDP veteran Nikai's youngest son expected to succeed him in Wakayama
Toshihiro Nikai, former secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, announced in March that he would not run in the next Lower House election to take responsibility for the political funds scandal that rocked his party and his own faction.
New workers name Shohei Ohtani as 'dream boss' for two years running
Shohei Ohtani has been overwhelmingly voted as the “dream boss” for people who started working in April, according to a survey.
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'Sugar Baby Riri' gets nine-year prison term over romance scam
Mai Watanabe, who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri,” dated older men and swindled them out of money by telling them fictitious heartbreaking stories about herself to gain their sympathy.

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