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RETRIAL

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 11, 2018
High court rejects decision to reopen 1966 Hakamada quadruple murder case
The Tokyo High Court on Monday overturned the Shizuoka District Court¡¯s decision to reopen the 1966 murder case involving former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, who was convicted of killing four people, despite recent DNA evidence that undermined his prosecution.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 8, 2016
Tokyo court rejects retrial bid over 1959 ruling that U.S. military¡¯s presence in Japan is constitutional
The Tokyo District Court on Tuesday dismissed a retrial request over a 1959 Supreme Court ruling that found the U.S. military¡¯s presence in Japan constitutional.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 7, 2015
TV Asahi gets ¡®The Scoop¡¯ on false convictions
Last week the Tokyo Shimbun ran an article about Keiko Aoki and Tatsuhiro Boku, the couple convicted of murdering Aoki¡¯s 11-year-old daughter in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison. The upcoming retrial, which will likely reverse the guilty verdict, may reveal that the Osaka pair were coerced into making...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 1, 2014
Coulson faces retrial on News Corp. bribery charges
Andy Coulson, who will be sentenced this week over phone hacking, will be retried on bribery charges after a London jury failed to reach verdicts following an eight- month trial into wrongdoing at News Corp. tabloids.
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2014
Hakamada has first appearance as reprieve pends
Apparently perplexed but yet thrilled to find himself in the spotlight, Iwao Hakamada, formerly the world¡¯s longest-serving death-row inmate, appeared for the first time in public Monday since being hospitalized after his release.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2014
Amnesty: Let ¡®tragedy¡¯ be a lesson to Â鶹´«Ã½ courts
Prosecutors must swiftly accept Thursday¡¯s Shizuoka District Court decision to reopen a high-profile 1966 murder case and get to the truth behind the conviction of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, the Japan branch of Amnesty International said after the ruling.
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At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
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Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
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Young Japanese anxious as Australia slows working holiday visa processing time
Commuters disembark a tram in Melbourne in March.
At Yasukuni, the politicians followed the script, but the shrine did not
People crowd in front of Yasukuni Shrine to pay tribute to the war dead on the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Unrelenting Russian anti-war protesters in Japan fight through inescapable doubt
Anti-war Russians protest Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in February.
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Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.

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