Saving Japan's elderly people from 'lonely deaths'

As Japanese society changes, many elderly people find themselves isolated and facing a "lonely death." Government agencies ...
Yahoo

'This is the beginning': 91-year-old sister of longest death row inmate sees hope in his acquittal

HAMAMATSU, Japan (AP) — Hideko Hakamada, 91, spent much of her life working to free her brother from nearly a half-century on death row. Now that he has been acquitted she feels that the siblings are ...
U.S. News & World Report

Japan's 'Death-Tainted' Homes Gain Appeal as Property Prices Soar

TOKYO (Reuters) -The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ago, an elderly woman hanged herself in the bathroom and ...

Survey: 83% of Japanese still support death penalty

Despite the United Nations calling on Japan to abolish the death penalty, an overwhelming majority of the Japanese population ...
Yahoo

Retrial ordered for 87-year-old ex-boxer on Japan death row

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s high court on Monday ordered a retrial for an 87-year-old former boxer who has been on death row for more than five decades after his murder conviction that his lawyers said was ...
Time

Japanese Court Dismisses Death Row Inmates’ Lawsuit Challenging Short Notice of Executions

An execution room at the Tokyo detention house taken during a media tour conducted by Japan’s Justice Ministry on Aug. 27, 2010. Reporter A Japanese district court in Osaka on Monday dismissed a ...
WMUR

He’s the world’s longest-serving death row inmate. A court just declared him innocent

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row in the 1960s.Now, more than five decades later, the world’s longest-serving ...