“There are very good people in this prison,” Akiyo told CNN. “Perhaps this life is the most stable for me.” The companionship offered by prison is the main appeal for these elderly women, along with ...

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

SHIZUOKA, Japan (WKRC) - The world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted after it was discovered that investigators planted evidence to frame him. 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison, ...

A U.S. Marine was sentenced in a Japanese court to seven years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year, the latest case to spark outrage among residents on ...

Japan, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health Statistics in December. Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday ...