For the first time, U.N. special rapporteurs called on the Japanese government to consider declaring a moratorium on capital ...

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 against capital ...

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

The older sister of former Japanese death row inmate Iwao Hakamata on Tuesday called for prosecutors to fully disclose evidence in relation to a review of the country's retrial system. "I want (prosec ...

A lawsuit filed by three Japanese death row inmates seeking a suspension of their execution by hanging was dismissed. According to Kyodo News and others on the 16th, the Osaka District Court in Japan ...

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 ...

Japan faces steep challenges in abolishing the death penalty despite repeated calls from human rights groups, legal experts and the Catholic Church, as public support for capital punishment remains ...

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