Prosecutors on Monday filed an appeal against a district court's decision last week to grant a retrial for a 90-year-old woman who served a 10-year prison term for the murder of her brother-in-law in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1979. The Miyazaki branch of the Fukuoka High ...
The Kagoshima District Court on Wednesday ordered the retrial of a 90-year-old woman who served a 10-year prison term for the 1979 murder of her brother-in-law.
A 29-year-old man on death row for the 2010 murder of his wife, baby and mother-in-law in Miyazaki Prefecture is seeking a retrial based on a plea for leniency from a member of the victims' family, his lawyer said Monday. The lawyer, Tomohiro Kurohara, said ...
Following new testimony from a former police inspector about a Russian man who was caught in an illegal sting operation, a court overturned his conviction for handgun possession.
The Osaka High Court upholds the acquittal of a man sentenced to death over his family’s murder in 2002 after a rare retrial called by the Supreme Court.
Japanese prosecutors say a Russian man facing retrial in a 1997 handgun case should be acquitted, paving the way for him to clear his name.
The Osaka District Court acquits two over the death of an 11-year-old girl in a long-awaited retrial.
The court said "doubts have been raised" over the credibility of 83-year-old Koki Miyata's initial confessions over the fatal stabbing.
On Jan. 26, 1948, a man claiming to be a public health official walked into a branch of Teikoku Ginko (Imperial Bank) in Tokyo's Shiinamachi district and told 16 clerks and customers dysentery had broken out in the neighborhood. He told them to drink a ...
Sadamichi Hirasawa was sentenced to death in part because of a one-off admission that he killed 12 people with poison and took money from a branch of Teikoku Ginko (Imperial Bank) in Tokyo in 1948. The Teigin Incident, as the crime became known, was ...
A woman who has already spent over 20 years in prison declares at her retrial that she is innocent of killing her daughter in a 1995 house fire.
"I'm innocent," a man who served more than 20 years of a life term over an 11-year-old girl's death in a 1995 house fire declared Thursday as a retrial was held in the Osaka District Court. Tatsuhiro Boku, 50, is set to be acquitted along ...
