(Kazuhiro NOGI/AFP/AFP) Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, cleared. But at 92 she refuses to relax, campaigning ...

Japan is one of only two G7 countries that still uses the death penalty. The other is the United States. In Japan, executions are carried out by hanging. They are conducted in secrecy. Death-row ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing two people by burying them alive in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan in 2006, died on Saturday, the Justice Ministry said, with suicide being suspected.

The archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Isao Kikuchi, is renewing calls for abolition of the death penalty in Japan and for clemency for two men, one convicted of murder and already sentenced to death, the ...

A 41-year-old man on death row for murdering two university students died at the Osaka Detention House on Saturday in an ...

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Hideko Hakamada spent nearly 60 years campaigning to get her brother, former death row inmate Iwao Hakamada, cleared and now campaigns against capital punishment ...