Death row inmates in Japanese jails are kept in solitary confinement and forced to wait for years, and sometimes decades, ...

Hideko Hakamada campaigned for almost six decades to get her little brother, the world's longest-serving death row inmate, ...

The Tokyo District Court has sentenced a 29-year-old man to 7 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of dangerous driving resulting in the deaths of three people and injuring three others.

The Kobe District Court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to life in prison for killing three people and wounding another with a crossbow in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2020. Prosecutors had ...

Judge Akira Kuranari ruled that the defendant, Ryohei Kume, took part in 'a malicious crime with sophisticated tricks' by ...

According to the indictment, Sotatsu Yanase abandoned his girlfriend's remains in 2024 near Izu Oshima's southwest coast, ...

A Perth grandmother duped into becoming a drug mule in an elaborate love scam abandons her final line of appeal on drug ...