Mr Iwao Hakamada, now 89, was exonerated in 2024 of a 1966 quadruple murder after a retrial. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Once the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, he was acquitted after a DNA test showed that the bloodstained clothing which was used to convict him was planted long after the murders ...

A Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4 million ...

Once the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, he was acquitted after a DNA test showed that the bloodstained clothing which was used to convict him was planted long after the murders, according ...

Mr Hakamata's lawyers had sought the highest compensation possible, arguing that the 47 years in detention - which made him the world's longest-serving death row inmate - took a toll on his mental ...