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Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 27, 2014
Sister's long years of support finally pay off
Hideko Hakamada, the 81-year-old sister of Iwao Hakamada, who was on death row more than three decades after he was convicted of murdering a family of four in Shizuoka Prefecture, expressed delight Thursday after learning he was being freed while his case is re-examined.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 4, 2013
Court calls end to plea seeking 'Teigin' retrial
The Tokyo High Court will drop the retrial plea for the late Sadamichi Hirasawa, who was condemned over the infamous 1948 "Teigin Incident" murder case, because his adopted son, who was pursuing the appeal, died in October.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 2, 2013
Retry condemned killer of four: lawyers
Lawyers for a man sentenced to death in a multiple-murder case from 1966 call for a retrial, saying new evidence proves their client was wrongfully convicted.
JAPAN
Nov 18, 2013
New evidence emerges in 1966 murder case: lawyers
Evidence emerges in a 1966 quadruple-murder case that suggests the man who was convicted and sent to death row may have been wrongfully accused.
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2013
Death-row inmate's bid to reopen '61 murder case fails seventh time
The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a petition for a retrial by a man on death row for the 1961 murders of five women who drank poisoned wine in Nabari, Mie Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 27, 2013
Top court rejects United Red Army member's appeal
The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal filed by death-row inmate and former United Red Army member Hiroshi Sakaguchi of two lower court rulings that rejected his plea for a retrial.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2013
Retrial appeal in '79 murder case rejected
The Kagoshima District Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal for a retrial filed by a woman who served a 10-year prison term for killing her brother-in-law in 1979.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 7, 2013
Ex-con's retrial bid over girl's '86 murder refused
An appeal for a retrial by a man who served a seven-year jail term for the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl is turned down by the Nagoya High Court.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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