Warning: This article contains details that readers may find distressing Two people have died in the Japanese city of Yokohama after a teenage girl jumped to her death from a shopping centre ...

The death toll from Japan's devastating New Year's Day earthquake has risen from to more than 160, authorities say. Efforts are continuing to find more than 100 people who remain missing a week later.

This is a rather quirky argument, and not normally put forward. Japan uses the death penalty sparingly, executing approximately 3 prisoners per year. A unique justification for keeping capital ...

TOKYO - Fans of the“Dragon Ball” franchise are set to see a host of product launches in the coming weeks, including a new <a ...

An 88-year-old man who was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing a family was cleared of all charges following a retrial in Japan. He spent most of his life on death ...

Hakamada was convicted of murder in the 1966 killing of an executive and three of his family members and setting fire to their home in central Japan. He was sentenced to death in 1968 but was not ...

U.S. Army National Guard and Filipino soldiers shown at the outset of the Bataan Death March. Allied forces were forced to surrender to the Japanese on April 9, 1942, the largest surrender in U.S ...

An 88-year-old man who is the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted by a Japanese court, after it found that evidence used against him was fabricated. Iwao Hakamada ...

The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.

False charges threatening people's lives The latest incident brought into relief problems with Japan's death penalty system. Members of an association studying Japan's death penalty, with the ...

TOKYO: Japanese prosecutors have decided not to appeal against last month's acquittal of the world's longest-serving death row prisoner, Iwao Hakamada, local media reported on Tuesday (Oct 8).