Ex-Judge Challenges Japan’s “Unopenable Door” Retrial System After Hakamada Case
Tokyo: The world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, won compensation from Japan this week after almost five decades in jail — and he owes his freedom to a judge with steely determination. The former boxer, now 89, was exonerated last year of a 1966 quadruple murder after a tireless campaign by his sister and … Read more