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Iwao Hakamada Awarded Record $1.4 Million for Wrongful Conviction in Japan

The 89-year-old, exonerated after nearly five decades on death row, receives formal apologies as his case fuels calls for legal reform and scrutiny of capital punishment.

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Japan Acquits Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate After 58 Years

Postwar Japan

Iwao Hakamada Awarded Record $1.4 Million for Wrongful Conviction in Japan

Tsuneo Watanabe, Influential Japanese Media Leader, Dies at 98

Japanese Police Chief Apologizes to Man Acquitted After 50 Years on Death Row

Japan's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted After 58 Years

World's Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate Acquitted in Japan After 48 Years

Japan Acquits Longest-Serving Death Row Inmate After 58 Years